Alex Hogrefe's conceptual retreat cuts into a remote Icelandic clifftop

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建筑可视化设计师Alex Hogrefe设计了一个概念性的混凝土建筑，项目选址于冰岛一个偏远的断崖边缘，该设计是Alex效果图系列教程的一部分。

Hogrefe利用这幢建筑演示工作中的可视化技术，着重灯光、材质和氛围的表现。他在可视化建筑表现网站上展示了这项概念设计。

Architectural visualiserAlex Hogrefe has imagined a precarious concrete retreat cut into the edge of a remote clifftop in Iceland, as part of a series of tutorials in creating renderings .
Hogrefe designed the building to allow him to demonstrate some of the visualisation techniques he uses in his work, focusing on lighting, texture and "atmosphere". He presents the images on his website Visualizing Architecture.

Hogrefe对Dezeen表示：“我的网站展示了许多异于传统建筑表现形式的教程。”

“基于这一点，设计则完全依靠他们自己，我不希望网站的访问者们只关注我展示的表现教程而忽视了自身的方案设计。” Hogrefe补充道。

"My site is very much about going beyond the conventional techniques of illustrating the built form,"Hogrefe told Dezeen.
"Because of this, the designs often have to hold up by themselves, before I illustrate them," he added. "I don't want my visitors focusing on a weak design instead of graphics that I am trying to explain."

该建筑被设想为一个避难空间，为来访者提供私人的住宿、冥想空间，并且能够亲近周围的自然景观。

建筑坐落在断崖边缘的沟壑中，模拟海浪造型呈锯齿状，嵌入山体，并装饰着冰岛的西海岸。

The retreat is conceived as a place of escape, with private overnight rooms for visitors, meditation spaces and access to the surrounding natural landscape.
It is proposed to sit within a furrow that has been gouged into the cliff face, referencing the jagged form of the many bays and inlets that make up the west coast of Iceland.

设计师表示：“设计中面临的主要问题是如何融入当地景观，回应地形地貌，使建筑与环境共生，而不是简单的在悬崖边植入一幢平常建筑。”

Alex补充道：“将从海面与悬崖一侧可见的建筑部分最小化，避免建筑的存在对悬崖和自然景观轮廓线产生过多的影响。”

"The major question behind the design is how to have a dialect with the landscape in such a way as to not simply plop a structure onto the cliff, but instead engage the landscape by calling on inspiration of the surrounding landforms," said the designer.
"This move minimises the visibility of the structure from the sea and from the cliff itself, lessening the interruption of the natural cliff profile" he added.

进入建筑的途中，位于厚厚的混凝土挡土墙和断崖空腔之间的小路划分为两部分，左侧是活动区，右侧是通往私人空间的长长的楼梯。

Hogrefe表示：“这些墙体使之与景观建立一种亲密关系，并且隔离了建筑内部活动产生的干扰。巨大的楼梯在悬崖边戛然而止，漂浮于汹涌的波涛之上。”

方案设计全部使用混凝土材质，回应了裸露的断崖，随着时间的推移，建筑会逐渐风化，与环境融为一体。

At the approach to the retreat, the path diverges with an exercise area to the left and a long staircase leading down to private rooms on the right, between a thick concrete retaining wall and the side of the hollow.
"The wall maintains a sort of intimacy with the landscape and limits distraction from inside activities," said Hogrefe. "The grand stair terminates just beyond the cliff edge, floating over the crashing waves below."
Concrete is used throughout the scheme to relate to the exposed cliffs and further blend with the landscape as it weathers.

建筑内部，开放式空间宽敞明亮，面对大海的一侧设置了通高的玻璃幕墙，每层均设有露台。

一部室内楼梯沟通着各层空间，公共空间位于上层，卧室、厨房和花园位于下层部分。

Inside, the rooms are intended to be open and brightly lit by full-height glazing that opens out to balconies facing the ocean on each floor.
An internal stair connects the different levels, with communal spaces located on the upper floors and bedrooms, a kitchen and a garden on the lower levels.

Hogrefe在美国俄亥俄州迈阿密大学建筑专业读研时创建了可视化建筑网站，最初只是为了课程设计的展示交流，后来变成建筑系学生学习的教程网站。

设计师表示：“在着手创建网站的那段时间，互联网上的大部分材料都是复杂的渲染设置和大量的3D模型。”

Hogrefe created the Visualizing Architecture website while studying for a Masters of Architecture at the Miami University of Ohio. It was originally intended as a place to display his thesis, but later became a tutorial site aimed at architecture students.
"At the time that I started the site, most of the stuff on the internet consisted of complicated render settings and intense 3D models." said the designer.

“我曾经彩绘、绘图，所以我非常关注氛围、灯光品质、材质和场所感。因此我总结了一些其他学生能够用到的简单实用的技巧，在网站上分享。”

尽管作为建筑学出身，但Hogrefe已经成为一名建筑效果图艺术家，目前在马萨诸塞州创立了一家效果图公司。Alex是建筑专业科班出身而投身于可视化行业的建筑师之一，可视化领域已经成为人们理解与表达建筑设计的重要方式。

"I came from a painting and drawing background so I was much more interested in atmosphere, quality of light, texture, place. I had figured out some really simple techniques that I thought other students would find useful."
Although trained as an architect, Hogrefe nows works as an architectural renderings artist at Design Distill in Massachusetts, a firm he co-founded. He is one of a number of trained architects to move into visualisation, as the field becomes more important to the way people perceive architecture.

英国建筑师Henry Goss也作出了类似转变，通过瑞典建筑视觉设计师Peter Guthrie开始了自己的可视化设计生涯，园艺学毕业的Paul Nicholls、Jonathan Gales和Kibwe Tavares在毕业之后则成立了一家电影工作室Factory Fifteen，而不是继续进行专业实践。

British architect Henry Goss made a similar switch, launching The Boundary with renderings guruPeter Guthrie, while Bartlett graduates Paul Nicholls, Jonathan Gales and Kibwe Tavares launched the film studio Factory Fifteen after graduating, instead of getting jobs in practice.

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