Ancient Arcology by HausArafna

3D Studio Max • Architecture • posted on Mar 23, 2008

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Description

a portmanteau of ecology and architecture, is a set of architectural design principles aimed toward the design of enormous habitats (hyperstructures) of extremely high human population density. These largely hypothetical structures, which are themselves commonly referred to as "arcologies," would be self-contained, contain a variety of residential and commercial facilities, minimize individual human environmental impact, and possibly be economically self-sufficient. --- wiki Rendertime was 6 hours. Modelling time almost 40 hours. Texturing 30 hours.

Comments (19)

phlynn

9:48PM | Sun, 23 March 2008

First class work! I hope to see this on the front page tomorrow..All elements come together to create a fantastic vision.

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DarkStormCrow

10:09PM | Sun, 23 March 2008

Excellent and outstanding work, very nicely done...

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BigDen

10:24PM | Sun, 23 March 2008

Wasn't the idea first introduced as a step in planning really long space flights? Generation ships and such.....think I read that somewhere, may have been in something Niven wrote. This is very good

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e-brink

10:54PM | Sun, 23 March 2008

Very nice work. A pleasure to see!

thevolunteer

11:17PM | Sun, 23 March 2008

What a fantastic creation. All that work and waiting sure was worth it. Terrific details. Aloha and Happy Easter.

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Rodma_Hu

11:21PM | Sun, 23 March 2008

http://www.arcosanti.org/ ...an early pioneer of this concept. Beautiful render.

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flumify

11:34PM | Sun, 23 March 2008

Incredible!!!

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ascript

1:04AM | Mon, 24 March 2008

Excellent! ;)

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DukeNukem2005

2:35AM | Mon, 24 March 2008

Very beautiful and very nice image!

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McDod

6:57AM | Mon, 24 March 2008

Well made and interesting scene with moody atmosphere...

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ragouc

6:58AM | Mon, 24 March 2008

Superb. Great work and render.

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Fizzyfly

7:26AM | Mon, 24 March 2008

Superb work. Love the lighting and all the detail.

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dengo

11:03AM | Mon, 24 March 2008

awesome 5+++++

wingnut55

4:59PM | Mon, 24 March 2008

a very impressive scene !

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sglfx

9:13AM | Tue, 25 March 2008

Those hypothetical structures commonly referred to as "arcologies" are Awesome!! a very cool scene.

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drcebolleta

8:16AM | Thu, 27 March 2008

Superb work!!!

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bonestructure

10:15AM | Thu, 27 March 2008

"http://www.arcosanti.org/ ...an early pioneer of this concept." Arco Santi is still growing and building. People do live there. Quite happily I'm told. Not for me, though. Too damn many rules. This is a nice image. The water could be improved, and you could boost the light a bit in front to show up the actual forms.

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