{"id":8670,"date":"2021-03-05T15:50:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T15:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/?p=8670"},"modified":"2021-03-05T15:50:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T15:50:14","slug":"four-watercolor-illustrations-for-el-paseo-de-saratoga-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/05\/four-watercolor-illustrations-for-el-paseo-de-saratoga-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Watercolor Illustrations for El Paseo de Saratoga Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are four watercolor illustrations I did late 2020 for an aging retail center called El Paseo de Saratoga.\u00a0 Bounded by Quito Road, Saratoga Avenue, W. Campbell Avenue, & Prospect Road, this shopping center would experience a major revitalization with these plans.\"\"\u00a0 The Architect for the retail element of this project is Kenneth Rodrigues + Partners of Mountain View, California.\u00a0 and he partnered with KTGY Architects of Oakland, California for the design of the office and residential floors above the retail.\u00a0 The perspective views we chose showed the overall project from some key locations–attempting to describe the architectural character that KTGY had in mind for the project.\u00a0 The first view shown here looks at the project from the existing parking area.\u00a0 The idea is to create a living community with full services right there, making day to day life more convenient and less dependent on transportation.\u00a0 Much of the space above the retail is offices, so within this development, you would have a school, restaurants and shops, offices, and residences.\u00a0 We showed not only general massing of the floors above the retail, but even more detail than the previous round of illustrations showed, since more design work had been done at this point.\u00a0 The second view shown here is closer in to the retail corridor, with the Whittle School and bridge shown beyond.\u00a0 As an artist I have tried to use lighting techniques to emphasize the parts of the rendering that I want the viewer to see.\u00a0 These are still preliminary designs, and it’s important to keep the “preliminary feel” in the illustrations.\u00a0 My approach is to show just enough detail that one can understand the scale and character of the building’s design, without going into extraneous detail, which serves only to distract the viewer with issues that can be decided later in the process, when the big picture has been established.\"\"\"\"\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are four watercolor illustrations I did late 2020 for an aging retail center called El Paseo de Saratoga.\u00a0 Bounded by Quito Road, Saratoga Avenue, W. Campbell Avenue, & Prospect Road, this shopping center would experience a major revitalization with these plans.\u00a0 The Architect for the retail element of this project is Kenneth Rodrigues + […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,11,1],"tags":[17,51,80,86,94,127,118],"class_list":["post-8670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architectural-illustration","category-architectural-rendering","category-perspective-drawing","category-uncategorized","tag-architectural","tag-illustration","tag-perspective","tag-rendering","tag-san-jose","tag-saratoga","tag-watercolor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}