Cityscape Icons

Dear All, Cityscape Icons is a project that comprises of two different design setups in which i represent the subject of the icon buildings atop a cityscape realm. The project approaches different point of views through the cityscape where the buildings affects the cityscape topology and gets affected by it, It catches a special moments in a city life, when you can see and feel all cityscape elements, construction, towers, buildings, roads, trucks, people,ships etc.... The Harbor Service Building aims to become not only a gateway, but also a destination, a metropolitan space for public use and access to the waterfront. Its mass creates a hybrid of typologies. Atop the urban podium sits a contorted crystal, connected by a large atrium. The podium allows for a new harbor park with expansive views towards the City and its harbor. A diamond- shaped depression within the podium anchors the building in the site, articulating the fork at the corner where site directionalities diverge. In contrast to the more stationary podium, the coiling mass containing the harbor offices is orientated to the most important directions of the site with hovering projections. The coiling of the tower creates a partially enveloped central plaza between the offices, which is articulated by a rusticated facade treatment, producing a distinct sense of cavernous interiority. Like a large amethyst geode, the monolithic nature of the exterior mass contrasts with the extremely ornate environment. The visual design is meant to compliment and celebrate the core concepts of the project, while highlighting its key features and representing it with a real sense of spaces/locations/site/details and design. Softwares used Autocad, 3dmax, vray, Photoshop, Ghost town plugin helped a lot to create the cityscape topologies and cause i used the lit version so i just kept some of the base buildings in the background. Hope you like it :). In collaboration with Jimmy Vincent http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1600x1200q90/834/u925g.jpg Open the link for full res http://imageshack.com/a/img834/2113/u925g.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1600x1200q90/844/rz19.jpg Open the link for full res http://imageshack.com/a/img844/1318/rz19.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1024x768q90/842/xmx1.jpg Open the link for full res http://imageshack.com/a/img842/673/xmx1.jpg Black and white for backgrounds :) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1600x1200q90/842/xt90o.jpg Open the link for full res http://imageshack.com/a/img842/3375/xt90o.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1600x1200q90/841/rhia4.jpg Open the link for full res http://imageshack.com/a/img841/7235/rhia4.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800x600q90/844/0eamv.jpg Open the link for full res http://imageshack.com/a/img844/5618/0eamv.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1280x1024q90/837/rm1h.jpg Open the link for full res http://imageshack.com/a/img837/2461/rm1h.jpg Best regards Karim Moussa Bazooka

Posted on 05.06.2014

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