by Alex Hogrefe | Jan 24, 2016 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 04 Cliff Retreat |
For the past few weeks, I have been producing section illustrations of my cliff retreat design. As is often the case, the final result took a complete detour from what I originally set out to produce. I began the spreads rendering out two large detail perspectives...
by Alex Hogrefe | Dec 13, 2015 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 04 Cliff Retreat |
The cliff retreat has been a fun project to design and I find myself constantly jumping back and forth between the macro and micro scales of the design. For the micro scale, the lack of detail in the model can make it difficult to visualize some...
by Alex Hogrefe | Oct 12, 2015 | Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 04 Cliff Retreat, Uncategorized |
As I move into the next design, I am thinking about several different site locations. For the past several projects, I have been working with scenes that contained a lot of context architecture or that were set in urban environments. For this next project, I am...
by Alex Hogrefe | Sep 20, 2015 | Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 03 Crossroads Pavilion, Uncategorized |
As I near the end of this project, I have started to compile all of the imagery into portfolio spreads. This is the first pass at organizing the illustrations and diagrams to tell the story of the project. As I put this series of spreads together, I am still...
by Alex Hogrefe | Aug 28, 2015 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 03 Crossroads Pavilion |
I have been experimenting with some interior illustrations and wanted to post a breakdown of this image. Determining the view for this shot has been difficult because there is so much going on in the design, and I wanted to find a view that properly captured...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jul 19, 2015 | Fundamentals, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 03 Crossroads Pavilion |
This week, I have begun piecing together the floor plans of the Train Pavilion Project. When it comes to visualizing floor plans, I have always leaned towards a simple representation. Maybe it is because I have spent so many years working in offices where the...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jun 29, 2015 | Over Time, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 03 Crossroads Pavilion |
I have been playing around with some diagrams for the recent train pavilion design. The architecture diagrams that I create on this site have ranged quite a bit over the years. Lately, I have been gravitating towards a minimal approach for these types of...
by Alex Hogrefe | May 3, 2015 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 03 Crossroads Pavilion |
It’s been a while, but I am finally back. I have spent the last several months traveling, giving workshops, settling into a new home, and spending time with family. Needless to say, priorities shifted as they often do and this website unfortunately had to be put...
by Alex Hogrefe | Mar 2, 2015 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 03 Crossroads Pavilion, Styles / Effects, Uncategorized |
As you have probably noticed, I have not been posting as often as I normally do. Things have been very busy lately, in a good way. Unfortunately, this means that I have not been able to invest as much time as I would have liked to this website. Instead of not...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jan 25, 2015 | Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 03 Crossroads Pavilion, Uncategorized |
The last few weeks have been spent designing a new project that will allow me to experiment with some new rendering styles that I have in mind. The past few projects were located in a dense urban setting so I am switching things up and going rural. I decided on an...
