Autopia Corner 50pct
Autopia. Looks like the digital rendering! Yay!
Photo (c) J.Ness, Owner (his cars, too). For those of you into "the details": Most of what you see in the photo is site-precast concrete. Right up the the scalloped top edges! The forms were 12" high boards placed on the flat casting slab. Within the basic rectangular basic formwork, custom EPS blocks were installed, shop-cut to the precise profile using a large CNC hot-wire cutter driven by my CAD files. Later, the 2x6 trim details were cut the same way and applied. The piers are 12" X 42" solid reinforced concrete. The 6" radius roundover edges were created using CNC-cut EPS foam form inserts. See the o2c models for several captures of the digital 3D model. You can see how the EPS foam inserts were done to create the 2" wide by 3/4" deep accent reveals with 3/4" chamfers that "wrap" smoothly around each bullnose, to get that "Thirtys" look. The "marquee" feature was dialed in using DataCAD, in part inspired by the last remaining "Bog's Big Boy" restaurant in Burbank. All that is CNC-cut EPS foam. Yep. The lettering down the face of the marquee I designed in DataCAD. Also CNC cut, then sheathed in polyurethane. The 12" high street address started with a stock font; then I exploded the letters into vectors. Then e-mailed the CAD file to a workshop, who CNC cut the lettering from plastic sign material. The "eyebrows" over the main entrances are of 2" x 6" tube steel, custom bent to spec. Atop each one of those is the Suite indicator. We chose to write out each numeral: TEN, TWENTY, THIRTY, etc., for style. Again, I began with the text in a stock font. Exploded to vectors. Then modified the vector trace to comply with certain desired minimums and such, and joined them all to a common base strut. Next, I e-mailed the CAD file to a metal shop. There, the skilled craftsmen fed the data into a CNC machine So those stand-up letters are CNC-machined billet aluminum. I think they came out "bitchin'!" The glass block follows a 48" radius nicely; the solid wall directly above that is wood framed, sheated and plastered to the 48" radius arc. Other details, like the multiple bands of storefront metal, the arcs on the doors, lozenge and circular windows, "triple-stripe" trim, etc., were all carefully chosen to add to the themed experience. Lotsa work, believe me.
Autopia Corner 50pct
Autopia. Looks like the digital rendering! Yay!
Photo (c) J.Ness, Owner (his cars, too). For those of you into "the details": Most of what you see in the photo is site-precast concrete. Right up the the scalloped top edges! The forms were 12" high boards placed on the flat casting slab. Within the basic rectangular basic formwork, custom EPS blocks were installed, shop-cut to the precise profile using a large CNC hot-wire cutter driven by my CAD files. Later, the 2x6 trim details were cut the same way and applied. The piers are 12" X 42" solid reinforced concrete. The 6" radius roundover edges were created using CNC-cut EPS foam form inserts. See the o2c models for several captures of the digital 3D model. You can see how the EPS foam inserts were done to create the 2" wide by 3/4" deep accent reveals with 3/4" chamfers that "wrap" smoothly around each bullnose, to get that "Thirtys" look. The "marquee" feature was dialed in using DataCAD, in part inspired by the last remaining "Bog's Big Boy" restaurant in Burbank. All that is CNC-cut EPS foam. Yep. The lettering down the face of the marquee I designed in DataCAD. Also CNC cut, then sheathed in polyurethane. The 12" high street address started with a stock font; then I exploded the letters into vectors. Then e-mailed the CAD file to a workshop, who CNC cut the lettering from plastic sign material. The "eyebrows" over the main entrances are of 2" x 6" tube steel, custom bent to spec. Atop each one of those is the Suite indicator. We chose to write out each numeral: TEN, TWENTY, THIRTY, etc., for style. Again, I began with the text in a stock font. Exploded to vectors. Then modified the vector trace to comply with certain desired minimums and such, and joined them all to a common base strut. Next, I e-mailed the CAD file to a metal shop. There, the skilled craftsmen fed the data into a CNC machine So those stand-up letters are CNC-machined billet aluminum. I think they came out "bitchin'!" The glass block follows a 48" radius nicely; the solid wall directly above that is wood framed, sheated and plastered to the 48" radius arc. Other details, like the multiple bands of storefront metal, the arcs on the doors, lozenge and circular windows, "triple-stripe" trim, etc., were all carefully chosen to add to the themed experience. Lotsa work, believe me.