by Alex Hogrefe | Oct 27, 2016 | Portfolio Vol. 5, Project 05 Research Lab, Styles / Effects |
I have been continuing to develop my research lab concept and specifically I have been focusing on some sectional qualities of the design. Since time is limited these days, I don’t always build elaborate models of each idea. In this case, I cut a section through...
by Alex Hogrefe | Sep 24, 2016 | Portfolio Vol. 4 |
I will be releasing Portfolio Volume 4 in about two weeks. In preparation for this, I have compiled all of the posts that relate to Portfolio Volume 4 and placed them on my dedicated portfolio page. Below are links to the posts that span over two years along with...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jul 16, 2016 | Fundamentals |
One of the questions I get asked most is how do I compose perspective shots. I have touched on this subject in past posts but have not organized these concepts into one place. The tips discussed below are by no means the law. There are often circumstances that limit...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jun 26, 2016 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 03 Crossroads Pavilion |
There are still some areas of Portfolio Vol. 4 that are missing information. One image that I just finished creating is an aerial of the train pavilion project that better shows the relationship of the new architecture to the iconic town water tower. I have several...
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 | Nov 2, 2015 |
Tumblr Images of the Week See all images at the VA Tumblr Site Steven Loutherback, Tyler McBeth, Alberto PonceSan Francisco Center for Innovation on Russian Hill Microsoft Paint, Adobe Photoshop, Rhino 5, V-Ray for Rhino Nov. 1, 2015 City Perspective...
by Alex Hogrefe | Nov 1, 2015 | Fundamentals, Uncategorized |
I have a lot of content on this site and when I redesigned it in 2014, I made an attempt to organize the info so that everything was easy to find. However, I understand that people just starting out may still find this site difficult to navigate and not know where to...
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...
