Hilltop Retreat

A vacation home project on a hilltop, not of the Èze variety, but more like the Illinois variety. The drawings, an elevation and section, were done using Google SketchUp in 2005.

Beach House

Apropos of Provence and the Côte d'Azur, here is a beach house design that I made in 2006 using Google SketchUp. It is a composition of planes and pastels; a design that is a little bit Le Corbusier, a little bit Paul Rudolph, and a little bit Mid-Century Modern motel. The plan area is less than 1000 square feet; yet the variety in the volumes of space and the open plan make it seem larger. On my architect website, it uses different materials and is called a weekend cottage.

Cliff House

Now for something completely different. I recently worked on a small vacation retreat, 710 sq. ft. in area. Here are a perspective drawing of it and an interior motion sequence, produced using Google SketchUp. Another perspective of this project is used in the header block of the blog. It was made with SketchUp with a night setting and a fog rendition to give it some atmosphere. The "lights" were produced by the spray paint accessory in Paint Shop Pro.