Compare contrast the Hand and the Max
The hand has dense information, the Max is seductive but thin.
The hand has dense information, the Max is seductive but thin.
I don't want to be all old school, but I've been around the block with Max vs hand drawing. Yes, clients don't get the sketch line. Its an abstraction after all, but an abstraction that has real architectural meaning. Look at the hand representation of the glass cladding on the train station roof. Just two types of cartoon gesture can connote two levels of structure, a large twisted frame supporting a smaller mullion system hung below. The scale is more conservative, even if grandiose. I sketched it over a Sketchup model I made from cad plans and a city massing model. It's accurate., and full scope in the planning sense.
The Max was created by an excellent Max artist, David Patterson. His part, the mapping looks great. But building all those levels of structure isn't going to happen in Max. The frame becomes immense, and the system hanging from it is just a bubble like a sheath, with too light a structure. Yes, that would take a lot of time, maybe some tricky rebuilding of grid lines, and that's why it won't happen.
How did the roof end up owning the image, with such a long and dominant view? its because the architects in question didn't feel the drama of the urban setting was worth telling.
We make roofs, so it's all roof.
Well, I disagree. We make cities, not roofs.
The green park loses its charm if it's used to make up some easy rendering. The sketch showed low scale buildings surrounding the Park, Montreal style. Building context takes time, so the sketched buildings that I so carefully imagined became lost in the trees.
Now it's not all bad, as the redrawing of an idea in Cad is a design process itself. The resolution of the building form that I dashed out sloppily with a thick marker, is more carefully wrought now.
