Louisville Opera House (competition version)

Louisville Opera House (competition version):

3D model by Rexfan2

The competition version of the Louisville Opera House.

Suncorp Stadium progress

Third tier is now completed. Next is the concourse and inner structures, outer wall, roof, landscape, stairs and seats, in that order.

Suncorp Stadium

Progress has been slow but good on Suncorp Stadium. Nearly finished the second tier. Then have to do the third tier, inner structures, outer wall, roof, landscape and finally the seats and stairs. Will look awesome, mark my words.

Louisville City Hall and Council Buildings

Louisville City Hall and Council Buildings:

3D model by Rexfan2

Louisville is the name of the fictional city which I am designing. On this plot, are the 16m tall City Hall and 38.5m tall twin council buildings, interlinked by a bridge on the top floor. The...

Plot 4 (Louisville)

Work has begun on a medium-rise low income building for the city of Louisville. The base floor is occupied by small shops with upper floors being home to residents.

Height (at the moment) - 88 metres
Floor count - 22 (21 residential, 1 commercial)

The other completed plots will be uploaded soon.

Tutorial: Painting irregular surfaces

We've all had to do it at some stage, and it is a right pain to do. However, sketchup has an inbuilt feature that makes it really quite easy. This tutorial will show you how to paint irregular objects easily, and make something that looks like this

 Irregular surfaces tend to curve in several directions, such as the example surface below which will be painted. If you just click on the face of the surface, you'll end up with your texture not pasting properly and the surface being covered with fragments of your texture.

 So the first step is to draw a rectangle in front of the surface you wish to paint. It should be the size of the largest edges of your irregular surface.

 Now, paint your texture onto the rectangle

 And use the position texture tool (Right click - Texture - Position) to make sure it fills up the entire rectangle.

 Now, once you've done that, right click on the rectangle again, and go to texture - projected.

 Now, select the paint bucket tool once again and hold down ALT while clicking on the rectangle. Then, click on the irregular surface. You should see something like this

 Erase the rectangle and any leftover lines, and the job is done.

Central Park

Central Park features a giant water feature, 12 covered meeting spaces, 4 memorial sectors and open space for general recreation.