I guess I’m on a roll depicting scenes from my dreams now (previous project)—I have a few more queued up for the future too. Maybe that’ll be my gimmick as an artist?

This creation is another indoor space—a large atrium containing three tiered platforms, each being a semi-private space leading up to a curtained-off bedroom area. The platforms are narrow in the center which gives the look of overlapping bridges and leaves most of the atrium as empty space. This makes for an open room where people on different levels can see and even talk to each other while still being in different “suites.” It’s something in between private and public, and it makes use of unorthodox “vertical access” to make a series of floors feel more connected.

I dreamed I was living here with my extended family, and during the evenings my cousins and I would meet and hang out in the homey little corners of this space before going to bed.

Construction

I knew a few things about this space from my dream: I knew there were overlapping bridges that you accessed from small staircases; I knew there were private areas separated by curtains; and I had some idea of what it would all look like when viewed from one particular angle. It took me a while to come up with a floor plan that actually made sense of all these features, but I managed it. I used a set of three peculiarly shaped tiers.

I downloaded most of the furniture models in this environment, which freed me up to spend more time modeling the unique floor plan itself, along with its railings, wall panels, moulding, columns, and doors.

Style

I also knew a lot about style of the room—a traditional mansion interior: dark wood, deep reds and greens in the furniture, and warm gentle lighting. It wasn’t so ornate as to be stifling.

Final images

I’ll call out a few images here and leave the rest in the gallery below.

The view across the bottom tier is more-or-less the original vision I saw in the dream, now much more detailed. Here you can see the second tier’s bridge cross at eye level, and the top tier’s bridge extends overhead. I like how this image gets progressively darker as you look from top to bottom.

This corner view will probably be the most helpful in making sense of the space. There are large and small gathering areas, and large doors that presumably lead to other parts of the building. The staircase in the far corner makes the tiers accessible to each other (which is needed to make the middle tier accessible to the doors).

From the opposite corner, you can see all three of the curtained-off bedroom sections—one for each tier.

Gallery