In search of The Perfect Building

My internal faculty guide, Yogesh Kawade, told me in my Case Study discussion yesterday that I should find an existing commercial building with a ground floor facility for the Car Showroom and Workshop, instead of getting a new building designed for this purpose. I agree with him on this no doubt, but for sure I'm not going to do it in the ground floor of a commercial building. So now, I'm hunting for an existing building which can be converted into a Showroom and Workshop. So, it begins..

Two more Case Studies done

Had gone to Mumbai for Diwali. Made good use of this visit to go visit two more showrooms. Unfortunately, I've promised the managers there that I'll be using the photos for my college use only so, well, I'll upload only 1-2 photos each.

Kitchen render

Here is my idea of the perfect kitchen which has space constraints. Just the perfect amount of color with a contrasting exposed concrete wall. The light colored wood adds to the simplicity and makes it a comfortable working atmosphere.

Banner Design for UCB

Had an exam today in college for a CAD/CGI subject. I was told to just design a banner for United Colors of Benetton. Here is the result! Click on the image to see clearly..

Car taking shape

It is now that I've started to realise exactly how difficult modelling a car in 3ds max is. And even more, how difficult it is to model the Vision. I have also learnt to never go the low polygon way for modelling cars with such organic features. Here is my current progress..

Modelling the inspiration

I was absolutely awestruck by BMW's design of the concept "Vision EfficientDynamics". Its THE most beautiful concept I have ever seen and hence I have developed a lot of respect for Adrian Van Hooydonk. I decided that the design of my showroom would be based on BMW but not the feeling has become even stronger!

Now that this car would be sitting in my virtual showroom which I shall create in 3D Studio Max later on, I want to model this car in 3DSM so that I can learn more about the concept in terms of design. I will also be making a scale model of the same later on. This is the current progress. Mind you, I have never even tried before to model a car in 3DSM before. Feedback would be much appreciated..

Thesis topic concept

I'm a big car freak, auto enthusiast, you may say. So it wouldn't come as a big susprise to anyone when the topic selection matrix helped me in finalising my thesis topic! :P So I finally have the freedom to design a place which I like in whatever way I like.

I've begun with my Case Studies, and so far have finished up Audi Pune. As I read more into the design philosophies of the company and study the car designs in depth, I come closer to finalising what company my showroom and workshop will be of.

Anywho! Here are a couple o pics from Audi Pune.

ALT Design

Now for those who find it hard to understand, ALT stands for ALok Thakurdesai. So yeah, I figured that a blog might be the best thing to start off to sho my designs off to you and then probably get your feedback. I will also constantly keep updating this blog with my thesis work, the topic of which is A Car Showroom & Workshop. More on that later, when the design starts. I will also post in brief the case studies around a few showrooms and workshops here.