by Alex Hogrefe | Jan 9, 2018 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 5 |
After a few more weeks of studying, iterating, and modeling, the design of the desert house has been more or less finalized. I have now begun thinking about the visuals and how I want to present this project. This has been difficult at times because the form can...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jan 24, 2016 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 4 |
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 | Jul 19, 2015 | Fundamentals, Portfolio Vol. 4 |
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 | Sep 24, 2013 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 3 |
When I originally designed this project back in undergrad, I put a lot of time into the design of the section. It’s an important illustration and I therefore wanted to move away from the abstract illustrations described in the previous posts and move towards...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jan 29, 2012 | Fundamentals |
A while ago, I created a tutorial showing how to render a section only using a Sketchup image and Photoshop which can be seen HERE. That tutorial was meant as a last second resort when time was limited and a decent looking image was needed fast. However, there is a...
