OLD PROJECTS : NEW LOOK

It’s always interesting to turn the clock back half a dozen years.  How crap were my Revit skills in 2008?  I was quite proud of myself of course, but it’s revealing to open a file that’s been lying dormant since then.  One such project is the William Morris’s house in Bexley Heath … the famous Red House designed by Phillip Web.

I didn’t get very far with it really, just the bare outlines of the shell, and I haven’t taken it much further this weekend.  The idea was to open a bunch of old files in Enscape and see how quickly I could generate some interesting images.  It’s a continuation of what I started last weekend.  Part of the motivation is to try out some of the planting families I have been working up for my presentation in Arhus.  Put them through their paces.

So I just threw a whole bunch of trees on the site, made a couple of small tweaks to the roof and fired up Enscape3d.  This gives you a pretty decent render quality in a live window, with some useful settings sliders…

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