luxury car showroom

[hoppergrass]

A show room for luxury cars, done to present the design to the client and prospective tenants.

Max2009 and mentalray


C&C's welcome


jhv

[neil]

Very nice work. Really beautiful. I like the lighting and post production very much.

May be little more reflection on the glass would be better and in the left side of your image, cars and people seems bit big in proportion but these are my personal thinking.

[d.sign]

Very nice rendering! Light is great!
I have some doubts about design, that what Neil pointed about size of cars and people, actually tells me that your ceiling heights are quite low for this type of building... but again, that is just personal opinion...

[bokkins]

looking good. lighting is very well done. design is also ok. what I could suggest maybe is that its not elegant enough to host elegant cars. it lacked luster, shine, spark or "Bling". a little more glass could easily make it standout. but just my opinion. keep it up!

[Rod]

I agree with the others, my take on the design is that there is very little product visable at street level. A much more prominate showroom on ground level would offer some product placement and make a luxury car seller happier I bet. Perhaps some kind of greenhouse affair along the retaining wall section would add the bling and street level product placement, and reduce the importance of the car elevator, which is a neat approach, that really is the focal point of the image.

[Horhe]

The image looks nice, a little too overexposed in parts.
The asphalt texture and grass could use more work IMO.
Im wondering about the glass, the light inside the building isnt that strong to make the interior visible that much and completly take off the reflections from the outside.

[hoppergrass]

Thanks all,

About the design, the approach to the building from the left comes over a rise, so one will be able to see right into the space. As yet the final finish is undecided, I wanted to go down the whole alpolic route but the architect didn't. Also the site boarders on residential so we also wanted to play the "Bling" down so as not to scare them too much

I intentionally played down the reflections and lifted the light inside, to make it easier to see inside. Not physically correct, but what the hell I like it.

The people and cars are to scale, I suppose that with the combination of looking up at them and a floor to floor height of 3m they do look a bit big.

Too true about the grass and asphault, will touch it up a bit more.

Thanks once again

jhv

[hoppergrass]

fixed the grass

jhv

[Rod]

Very nice indeed. Your stuff looks a lot better than the cars and peeps, good going! I've a question, the structure on the left, the standoff glass wall, I've seen photovoltalic glazing, perhaps that glass wall has some specific purpose? Mind sharing?

[hoppergrass]

The glass structure is a car hoist linking the basement to each level serving as a means to get the vehicles to the upper levels and as a display area for a "special" car.

It is made up of angled panels of glass, forming pyramids, held together by a space frame.

The idea that the angled glass will sparkle and flicker as you move past it, creating a dynamic beacon seen from the aproach rise.


jhv