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Oct. 06, 2020, by Nicolas Paulhac
Parametric Cities: a 2021 Collection of Materials
We decided to give Archviz experts even more tools to design entire cities: get inspired with our 2020-2021 catalogue!
Today is a special day. Substance Source becomes the perfect home for a (gigantic) batch of new materials. The title clued you in: it’s all about buildings! And we might possibly have gone way over the top this time.
There are full building facades, structural construction materials, interior design and decoration textures, so there’s a chance the material of your dream is in here. And if it’s not, don’t forget to check last year’s collection of powerful assets designed especially for Archviz experts.
Welcome to Parametric City!
Last year, we created parametric materials to simplify the texturing of building elements, like curtain walls and windows. This time, we went even further: the material is the facade.
However, the need for speed of execution should in no way drive you to sacrifice photorealism and creative freedom. The facades are fully parametric, meaning that every aspect can be changed. From the material of the walls to the proportion of the windows, their color — even the lintel design and the ledges at every story: everything adapts to your need and taste.
And to truly give the illusion of realism, your building needs to feel inhabited, and that means finding a way to infer the life that is happening behind the curtains.
The parametric facades includes parameters to selectively vary the details of each window. You can decide to open or close the curtains, roll down the shutters, and choose between daylight or night-time mode to get a completely randomized final result.
Beautiful Composites
Technical materials make their entrance into the collection to inspire new interiors for 2021. Form meets function with these elements designed with performance in mind only. Industry secrets, such as aeronautics technical materials, are making a noticed entrance into interior spaces.
Space separations, walls or ceilings become ever-changing surface according to the time of day and the viewers position. You can apply it to full wall sections, or divide it in smaller tiles and brick-like layouts to introduce a graphic second read. See how it works with these translucent plastic partitions:
Foam Materials
In the same vein, expended foams that were hidden behind walls become visual mechanics. We designed several types foam materials with parameters to let you customize the cells size, depth, color and density.
Metal foams
Metal foams are a cellular structure consisting of a solid metal with gas-filled pores comprising a large portion of the volume. The pores can be sealed or interconnected. Metal foams are lightweight, have exceptional mechanical resistance, and provide sound and thermal insulation.
Plastic foams
Plastic foams are a type of polymers which include void and cells within the polymer. This cellular structure forms by impregnation of a physical or chemical blowing agent. Also called “expanded plastics”, foams possess inherent features that make them suitable for shock absorption, thermal and sound insulation, even captation of interior ambient pollution. They are also very easy to form cut and assemble.
Ceramic foams
Ceramic foams are astonishingly lightweight, while sharing the desirable visual qualities of ceramic.
Acrylic polymer
Complementary to real marble and stone finishes, acrylic polymer primarily serve as a countertop and benchtop surface, though it has many other applications. It is suited for sinks, bowls, basins, baths and shower trays; creative planners have all the options to design functional and tasteful kitchens and bathrooms, sanitary facilities, and much more.
Interior Chic
Speaking about evergreen materials, this release also feeds your palette of finishes and patterns. When it comes to interior design, one can never have too many woods, marbles and concretes. Of course, it’s all totally sustainable as everything’s digital !
We don’t compromise on realism: every material mimics how the fabric of material behave in real life. Take wood for instance, the way you cut the trunk will give you a different finish of the fibers… but more on this later. This goes, of course, for every part of the transformation process: from fabrication to installation and every step in between.
We created materials with parameters that enable anyone to become a material expert by playing with the main visual attributes of the texture file.
For the more curious, the .sbs files are all on Substance Source if you wanted to know how the effects are made. You could definitely get some inspiration there! We also aim for the library to become a digital bible for material procedural creation. The nodal graphs are at your disposal to generate your personal catalog of finishes.
So. It’s raining wood on Substance Source. You asked for it! Today you get access to a whopping 1000 fully parametric woods splintered into:
– 40 unique wood types
– 5 main wood finishes
– 25 layout of wood floors
– 10 wood siding, dock and roof shingle patterns
– laser carved wood patterns
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If you want to be more experimental, there’s even a couple of wood composites we picked up from a previous discussion with Daniel Liden.
We added new metal meshes and decorative woven structures. Parametric woven metal patterns consist of fl at and/or round wires interwoven to create distinctive textures and designs for wall partition systems or ceiling tiles.
Check out a selection of free materials from the architectural release on Substance Source!
Artwork and visuals by the Substance Source team: Maximilien Vert, Eric Lautard, Damien Bousseau.
