mirco brewery

[matt_vinoir]

hi guys, i haven't been around for ages and ages but i've just got back on the horse for my thesis stuff for the end of this year( argh only 3 weeks away!!)

 

anyway... this is a micro brewery in sunny portsmouth where i'm from. just started yesterday so i will be tweaking for a while. Conceptually it is a structure "wrapped" in the black brick skin, with the gaps partly concealling drainage and showing up each bay of the building.

 

i am yet to properly put in entourage ( although i'm not a fan of much more than the odd person for scaling) so ignore the out of scale people in the existing site foto!!

 

Look forward to some comments

 

see ya

 

matt

[matt_vinoir]

hi mark, thanks, i though i should combine my love of beer into my architect at some point!!

 

the sidewalk is infact a 900mm raised space so that people can sit on the edge ( probably need balustrades for the bloody planners but hey!)

 

however, it raised a good point. i have the ability to really screw up a composition with mis matched scales of people etc. ironic as the point of them is to understans the scale! i will composite a couple of people sitting on the ledge to make it read better cheers.

 

as for the tiling on the concrete, i'm trying to co for an insitu ribbed concrete look ( bit like stanton williams if anyone knows them) but it does need some more playing around

 

i'll post up a plan when i get back home. the concrete is acutally an independant structure ( a clocktower which is minus the clock at the mo!) to mark a threshold into a new urban park so it doesn't need to connect to the main brewery except on first floor level.

 

i'm still trying to figure out my style. i don't like it to look really 'real' but not too fake either.hmmm anyhoo! thanks for the advice!!

[matt_vinoir]

hi again,

 

you are totally right about the steps.there are some which i just totally forgot to put on the model!!

 

the moneo building is very similar really, just a look out and point of reference really.

 

i'll have to get the plans off my other computer but here is a render of the entire masterplan

 

i generally model in archicad and render in my old version of vray free. nearly finished the course so i can finally go and buy a half decent version! wha hey!

[matt_vinoir]

hi again mark!

 

thanks for the interest!. right i am on a bit of work avoidance time so i put in enough images to explain it this time!!

 

v interested to hear you share the same working method. i sometimes have trouble with archicad imports ( i do use the famous m lorenz plugin thou , thanks once again to the man!) i then to get dark surfaces which refuse to go away so i end up having to remodel them in 3dmax. how do you find it?

 

anyway no the bit site plan was just an archicad model rendered from above. i know very little abou the displacments i'm afraid.

 

the big square is a new housing scheme. i am yet to render this brute. i did the modelling already but archicad very kindly corupted me file :{

 

i have included an elevation for it and a sketch. at the other end is a fish market. so the thesis is about fish n beer!

 

also included floor plan and axo to explain the brewery and a reviewed image with people . my tutor wanted the image to be filled with people getting pissed!! i think i may have over done it!! comments really grateful on that one!!

 

sorry for all the images!!

 

speak soon

 

matt

[matt_vinoir]

hi again!

 

sorry for the confusion. yeah the sketch and elevationare of the housing. it is meant to have a really monotonous feel ( although that isn't a good word!) more that it is read as a big block with thte shutters cascading around the elevation with different rythms. do you know funf hof in munich by herzon and demuron. a bit like that. it is a bit bland but that is the sort of feel i need. i don't want the housing to stand out as the major piece even though it is a bit element in the masterplan!

 

i know what you mean about the people.transparency doesn't do it. it just makes them look too pasted on in thr page. i will give em a bit of perspectived blur great idea.

 

finally about the dark planes. it is a bit like when you change view and use the same ir map. you get weird dark planes. could be that my int samples were too low. it tends to only be when i magic wand the site housing in so i think that must be the problem with meshing!

 

cheers

matt

 

p.s. my tutor is quite a famous old dude called sir colin stansfield smith

[matt_vinoir]

he is an riba gold medal winner if that means anything. people like moneo, ghery and koolhaas have won it. check out his work with the hampshire county architects. here is a pic of the building he designed which is the architecture school i work in which is nice!!

 

i know what you mean about the facade thing. i saw you're renders which are lovely ( remind me of what swiss interactive ag are doing which is just amazing) but you have made some good comments regarding the archiecture so many thanks indeed

 

the beer is what we call real ale over here in england. not like that yummy chech stuff up your way but does the job just the same!

 

really interesting process actually, i really like that natural old fashioned way of doing things which has no need to change with time

 

anyway, i'll post up the fishmarket roughs sometime when they are done! really difficult to do cos its a really simple curving roof with a few posts!

 

speak soon!!

 

matt

[3D Plans Jason]

Matt,

 

A few things that I see at a glance:

 

1. the white/grey concrete texture look very lo-res. I would replace it with a much higher resolution texture

 

2. the lines in the stone courtyard don't appear to be parallel to the building or sidewalk.

 

Otherwise it's looking good!

 

JJ

[monkeyboy]

hey matt,

 

how did you do the sideview?? its really good!!

[matt_vinoir]

fist off thanks for the advice on the concrete. its meant to be a really rough texture sort of ribbed concrete but i think its a problem with me uwv values kind of screwing up the bitmap. needs a bit of a play. i do like rough textures ) ex concrete) really nice light modelling exp with downlights on rough stone walls but clients seem to not like em ( no taste i reckon! lol)

 

hiya monkeyboy,

 

when you said side view, did you mean the elevation of the housing with the shutters? i'l quickly explain that even if it isn't what you meant.

 

archicad is really good for it, i just viewed it in shader mode with just polygons shoing no lnes and exported it to illustrator to clean up. ( illustrator is a great tool but so annoying to work with!)

 

i do most draughting in vectorworks which is inho the best 2d tool out there.

 

sorry if it is the wrong question! but i love chatting about all this stuff so anything you want to ask!

 

bye for now!

 

p.s. here is my first go at the fist market. need some work so i'd like some c&c please!

 

the curved roof is a high ppolished high cement concrete ( the metaphor is like the shiny underbelly of a fish etc etc) it is a very economic design in terms of its elements so it is hard to make it work.

 

cheers guys!

 

matt

 

pps hi jj, just got what you mean about the brick pattern not running parallel. the brick runnind paralell to the building. as the road goes of that an angle instead of following the road the brick is like a carpet following on from the walls of the building if that makes any sense at all! lol but very well spotted

[matt_vinoir]

he he. yup the old handrail issue. in the section i have a concrete upturn but for the renders ( remember i have to show this to tutors at school) we kind of accept that there would be either a "ha ha" type ditch or delicate handrails but choose to not put them in. in reality for clients i would have to because they would just talk about that and nothing else! lol

 

look forward to seeing the exteriors btw!!