Arch construction

Here I start my construction diary. I will make very fast construction models just for fun.
My goals include:
-a better understanding of arch construction and of different styles and materials
-a better grasp on spacial composition
-practise architectural lighting
-having fun with form

Hey man,

I love your character work, so I'm sure this will turn out great. Is there a particular building your recreating, or is this of your own design?

-AJ

Hey, thanks for cheering up!
This building is from imagination, then I will pick up refs for later ones. It's a kind of building I'm living in - an old German brick-type.
It's not like learning anatomy, it should be easier.

This is from imagination too. It's interesting to compare with real buildings, which seem so much more interesting. This is stalinka (named for Stalin), which is elite building type for Kiev. Big windows, thick brick walls. Built for ages. Then came chrushevkas and later panel houses, which lack in most parameters to stalinkas or in some. One-room flat costs from 70000$.

A simple wooden shed.

Some first floor variants.

Now I feel I can go from basic directions of buildings, such as
-industrial (basically not for living and mainly functional)
-historical
-social (cheap and generic buildings)
-office buildings and malls