Anderson Spec House

This project was situated on the last of the vacant lots in a development.  Located in Santa Rosa, CA the neighbors and city wanted to see what the proposed home might look like before allowing the owner to proceed.  With no architect or designer on board, no plans or elevations to work from, I was handed a magazine photo and asked to create a home with very specific parameters for space requirements and to meet the clients design aesthetic.  After designing, modeling and rendering were complete, client revised the design completely shifting large areas of space including both garage and living space to redesign the project. Final rendering show some of the most time consuming issues on any project including a hillside site, montaged photos to create the backgournd image, a montage to match the rendering to the real world photo and a spanish tile roof.

3d house rendeirng from the street. Note on the enlarged version the tiles on the roof. These are actually modeled tiles and not simply an image of a tile roof, thereby creating a much more realistic image. Enlarged view of the house showing the roof and texture of the building.  Only a few of the plants shown are real in the original photos, and there are some trees that had to be removed from the original photo to slide the rendering into it as the trees would have been in the middle of the driveway. A secondary rendering requested from the client to show the neighbors what the proposed house might look like from between the houses on the next street down the hillside.  Unfortunately this image shows that the proposed house does not tie into the neighborhood setting very well as the context for the site was all 2 story single family residences with painted lap siding.  The client was set firmly on having a 1 1/2 story home that included a large granny unit as well and that would be an adobe colored stucco look to home.