Just to let you know from start I am a first year student in architecture here in Sweden. However, despite the lack of experience we were assigned in school to design a sauna at a specific place. This post isn’t for me to show off my design, instead i simply wanted to share these renders to the blendercommunity to show what you can do with blender and cycles.
The scenes were made quite quickly to meet the deadline and relies more on lighting and hdri pictures instead of detailed modelling.
The task was to design a sauna:
That was 45 square meters big
Had room for 8-10 people at a time
Had changingrooms and toilets
As well as a relaxing area
So after three weeks of project time this is my exterior shots made in blender for the presentation!
It looks excellent. One thing though, for the glass material there is a trick used by Andrew Price (Blenderguru founder) to reduce the noise but remove the caustics(http://www.blenderguru.com/videos/create-realistic-materials-with-cycles/). For your render I think it would help a lot. Or you could mix Glossy + Transparent material to fake glass material.
I’m going to take a closer look at it for sure!
