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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Roswell Volkswagen


Roswell_Volkswagen (2014)
Sandy Springs, Georgia, U.S.A.
Commercial, Car Dealership, Retail, Auto

Roswell Volkswagen is a car dealership next to Waffle House and Sandy Springs Toyota. It's a two-story building with a service center, offices, and much more. It also has an Auto Center(Building B) near the back of the building. The difference I made of this building from the others, when it comes to Building A(The Main Building), usually, the entrance facade post is white along with the edge material, but instead, I designed Roswell's blue, and the edge's I designed in a brownish-tan color. I also used green glass as the windows. This building also has two circular windows from the roof top to give more of a style to it. I also placed the service center in the front based on one of the concept photo's of an existing Volkswagen dealership building. 
  

The picture above and below are Thea Renderings of Roswell_Volkswagen. I just want to be very clear on what the front would look like. Of course, You even see the same cars. 


The second Thea Rendering is just a more foggy picture of it. You can also see the reflection on the windows. I also used the tree as a component (by Google Designer Nate). So Nate and the component designers who made the cars, Thank you for your examples. If I had known they had a component of the VW logo(which they did), I wouldn't have had to design the one you see right now, which still looks great, so why does it even matter?


These are just the sides of the building. As you can see also, unlike other buildings, This Volkswagen building has darker brown and tan colors. Most VW buildings are white or light gray. You also see the blue material on other parts of the building as well.  


This is Building B, or the VW Auto Center. It can be used for car repair etc., but I just designed it just incase there needed to be an extra set to the car dealership itself. It's just a new warehouse building that has been styled up and decorated. I designed it like an Auto Center, though. Cars come it, cars go out. 


This is the front and back of Building B. As you can see, Cars come it, cars go out. It doesn't have to be an auto center, but I've arranged it to be car convenient. 


From this map on the after photo, Building A is the larger building of course, and behind it is Building B. Just North of the dealership is the new Waffle House and the past renovated Sandy Springs Toyota. The reason I placed VW where it is, is because Sandy Springs Toyota is the only brand dealership in that one area; Therefore, A dealership plaza would form if more dealerships moved into the area. The whole goal behind this all is to help spruce of Sandy Springs along Roswell Road, even though this is not a real plan. 


Saturday, October 11, 2014

Costco Wholesale_Macon


Costco Wholesale Store (2014)
Macon, Georgia, U.S.A.
Retail, Club Membership

Costco is a wholesale store for some of you that don't know. For example, Sams Club or BJ's probably. Costco is common in parts of Atlanta such as Cumberland Mall or Peachtree Dunwoody etc., but Macon has no location. So, I decided to bring it to the city. Like the movie theater problem, The city lacks wholesale stores, so I decided add Costco to the other side of where Sams Club is located. This is the first design I used for SketchUp 2014, and this is also the first design I used with Thea Render. This store would also be across from where the old Westgate Mall(which became Westgate Shopping Center and turned into a living hell) is located.  


Thea Render is a rendering software that I have for SketchUp 2014. I also placed the door and garage entrance/exit along side each other.


This is the Front, Rear, Left, and Right side of the entire building. It takes up most of the lot it uses. Costco's first location would be in the brain of the Southwest part of the city.