Hokee Pau Kiosk - Singapore

An initial proposal for a Hokee Pau kiosk located in one of Singapore's many shopping malls. Two color schemes were used -- a red pattern over a lightbox, and a reflective orange pattern. Both can be seen above. The model was made in SketchUp, rendered with Vray, and edited in GIMP. The final A3 presentation boards were made in Layout.

Food Court Concept

Food court concept modeled in SketchUp, and rendered by combining exported SketchUp jpegs with a Vray clay-render. The two images were combined in GIMP. The process is well suited for short deadlines when long, photorealistic Vray renders with many materials are not possible. 

Wei Xiao Bao - China

Cafe Design IV: Alternate Designs

Here are some alternate deigns for the Thanya Park cafe that were initially proposed. There were actually many more, lots of rendering done, but it was an opportunity to try the new settings on SketchUp 8 + Vray.

Cafe Design IV: Thanya Shopping Park, Bangkok Thailand

Interior image showing the front counter.

Exterior image showing windows, doors, and outdoor seating area.

Another interior image, showing the front counter and a bit of the kitchen area.

Page 2 of the design manual, which will be provided to the contractor for construction.

This project, still in progress as of September, 2012, will be located in Bangkok Thailand's new Thanya Shopping Park. The cafe features an indoor and outdoor seating area, a small kitchen and bakery display case. There will be some changes to the design before construction begins, and as always, changes generally come up during construction itself, either for improvements or to meet time, budget or material constraints.

The 3D model was made in SketchUp 8, rendered in Vray, and finished in GIMP. Layout was used to set up the design manual, of which page 2 is displayed above.

Small Cafe Design

On the left, this is how the cafe looked originally. On the right, this is the final 3D proposal, along with the font and background design at the bottom and a proposal for a metal frame to hold a preexisting cafe logo sign on the bottom right.




The 3D proposal is on the left, with the finished facade design on the right. The 3D model was built in SketchUp, rendered in Kerkythea and combined with a photograph taken as a reference at the beginning of the project. The sticker was designed in Illustrator with a part of the coffee bean pattern exceeding the margins of the canvas. When it was printed, it turned out to be larger than expected. Since this project was done "pro-bono" no harm was done.

All totaled, the project took less than a day to design, 3 rounds of working with the cafe owner to pick the design they wanted, and less than a day to install - installed by friends of the cafe owner.

Completed: Capricciosa Pasta & Pizza - Singapore

Opening week for Capricciosa's new Singapore location, situated in the newly completed J-Cube shopping center in Jurong East. While the design changed many times throughout development, the basic design elements remained and can be seen in final product.

Here is one of the last 3D renders done for the Capricciosa restaurant. The front facade had changed many times as did the floor-plan which can be seen throughout the included presentation boards.

Capricciosa is a pizza and pasta restaurant originally from Japan but has locations in Malaysia and now Singapore. The design challenges presented with this project included accommodating Capricciosa's signature design elements to the strict requirements of Singapore's new J-Cube shopping center.

If you look closely at the presentation boards and the 3D you will notice that not only had the design changed throughout the development process, but the entire floor-plan was "mirrored" multiple times. Despite this, most of the basic design elements were preserved throughout and can be seen in the final photographs.

Finally, in April 2012, the restaurant opened its doors to business.

The modeling was done in SketchUp7, rendered with Vray, and laid out in SketchUp's Layout program. Post-production work was done using the open-source GIMP program.

Cafe Design III

Here are some photographs on site of a cafe being designed & built in Vietnam. Compared with the 3D conceptualizations below, one can see a quite literal translation was made with few compromises to implement the design. Generally, concept and actualization diverge either because of budget, problems sourcing material for certain design elements, or last minute decisions made to change certain features.

The 3D was created in SketchUp, rendered with Vray, and finished in GIMP. For this particular project many iterations were done and time constraints were a burden - this resulted in some of the latest renders being of low quality simply to help contractors as they physically built the cafe's interior. The design itself is based on a combination of earlier designs implemented for other locations, as well as site-specific requirements indicated by the client.

Kiosk Design Update

A previous kiosk proposal received feedback from the client and has been adjusted to be more modern & economic in design.


Here is a more colorful version trying to maintain a modern but vibrant look.

These models were created in SketchUp7, rendered in Vray, and finished in GIMP. The presentations were done with SketchUp's Layout program. The previous kiosk design this current proposal is building on can be found here.

Simple Banquet Hall

A simple riverside banquet hall on a misty morning.


Here is a stand-alone render of the table and chair set from cgdigest.com. Upon close inspection, you can see the multitude of poly-faces making this a very difficult model to manipulate in SketchUp with edges and profiles turned on in the view menu.

Here is an old wine label, made a while back, that is used as a texture in the centered picture frame on the banquet hall's back wall. Joining it are two old vintage posters. Readers may notice the vase used in the "Foyer Visualization" project sitting on a corner table along the same wall.

This image used imported .3ds files, an illuminated background picture, custom models and downloads from the SketchUp 3D Warehouse. The table and chair set comes from cgdigest.com who offers free models, tips, and inspiration for other aspiring 3D artists out there. The administrator of cgdigest.com also runs a 3D rendering service at 3d-architecture.org.

TIP: When importing high-polygon 3D Max files into SketchUp it is best to turn off edges and profiles in the "view" menu. Turning the imported tables and chairs into one component and hiding it as other elements were added in also helped keep the lag down to a minimum. When the 3D max components are hidden, you can safely turn on edges and profiles. When you are ready to render simply unhide the component.

Cafe Design II

A cafe design for a franchise. This project is in Vietnam.

The theme was "California." Road signs from famous locations in California were used in the design.

Floor seating upon a raised platform was required.

A mixture of different seating styles, tables, and chairs were used to give the design more variety.

This is another cafe design based upon an earlier project which serves as the template for this particular franchise. The above design is for a shop space located in Vietnam. The theme was "California" so images and road signs were incorporated into the orange & white scheme to reflect this.

SketchUp 7, Vray, and GIMP were used to create these images.

Cafe Design

Counter Area

Front Entrance

From Counter

Overview

A recent cafe franchise design in Singapore modeled in SU7 and rendered in Vray. No post production editing was done.

Though it may be difficult to tell because of the lighting, the world maps are 2d cutouts. This is accomplished by turning a world map outline in Adobe Illustrator into a .dwg file, importing it into SU7 and intersecting the lines with column before punching them out with the push/pull tool.

Restaurant Front

Competing concepts for the exterior.

Alternate concepts with a clear view of the garden.

Interior: Vertical wall planters outside the large 1st floor windows will fill the existing half-meter void that exists now.

SketchUp, Vray, GIMP, + photographs taken on-site.

Summer Frost Cafe: Scape, Orchard Singapore

 

Summer Frost was a franchise iced milk dessert cafe. A new shop was opening in Singapore's famous shopping district on Orchard Road. This project was another case where many site visits were made, and we were very active in the both the development process and construction. As a result, the final outcome was very close to what was originally envisioned.

A three-dimensional wave feature wall dominates one wall, while another vector graphic taken from the 3ds Max model was printed into a massive wall sticker and placed on the other. Summer Frost opened in early June, 2010.