Mountaintop Bilpin Resort / IAPA designSave this picture! Jing QiuArchitects: IAPA designAreaArea of this architecture projectArea:300 mYearCompletion year of this architecture project Year: 2024 PhotographsPhotographs:Jing QiuManufacturersBrands with products used in this architecture project Manufacturers: Colorbond, DECORCRETE AUSTRALIA, Steel, corten steel Lead Architect: Paul Peng More SpecsLess SpecsSave this picture!Text description provided by the architects. Location - Nestled atop Mount Tootie in Bilpin, on the northern edge of the Blue Mountains, Mountaintop Bilpin Resort offers a serene escape into nature. Just 6 km from Bilpin's town center and 90 km from Sydney, this 40-hectare retreat provides breathtaking views and tranquil surroundings. Bilpin, known as the "Land of Mountain Apples," is famous for its crisp apples, fresh juice, and summer apple-picking season.The town features charming roadside stalls located along the historic Bells Line of Road. The resort, at the end of Mount Tootie Road, is bordered by Wollemi National Park, ensuring privacy and immersion in lush wilderness. Design Concept - The resort's design integrates seamlessly with its natural surroundings, embodying the philosophy of "nature as stay, stay as nature." This concept fosters a deep connection with the environment, offering tranquility, balance, and comfort.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!Architectural Design - The resort features two cabins along a 70-meter ridgeline, each spanning 170 square meters and accommodating 812 guests. A 300-square-meter central courtyard, with a serene water feature, connects the cabins. This versatile space is ideal for yoga, wellness sessions, weddings, corporate events, and music gatherings. The architecture harmonizes with the mountain's contours, creating a tranquil yet functional environment for memorable experiences.Save this picture!Save this picture!Interior Design - The interiors combine refined simplicity with Eastern influences, blending natural materials and earthy tones. Floor-to-ceiling windows flood the spaces with light, offering panoramic views. Living areas, bedrooms, and tatami spaces feature soft white and charcoal linens, while kitchens and bathrooms showcase pristine white stone finishes. Modern amenities, including air conditioning, underfloor heating, and premium appliances, ensure comfort. Outdoor bathtubs with mountain views provide a perfect setting for relaxation. The exterior walls, clad in Colorbond Monument, blend with the natural surroundings, while Corten steel cladding on the tatami pods adds a striking contrast. A featured pool mirrors the sky and landscape, creating a serene visual experience, especially at dawn and dusk.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!Landscape Design - Surrounded by untouched nature, the resort offers mesmerizing views of water, light, and mountains, particularly at sunrise and sunset. Guests can savor morning coffee, hearty dinners, or peaceful evenings by the fireplace under a starlit sky. The tranquil setting enhances every moment, providing a sanctuary to reconnect with nature and rejuvenate. Mountaintop Bilpin Resort is a secluded retreat that combines innovative design with captivating natural beauty. Its harmonious integration with the environment, modern comforts, and serene surroundings create an unparalleled escape from city life. Perfect for relaxation, reflection, and unique experiences, this resort offers a haven to reconnect with nature and find peace.Save this picture!Project gallerySee allShow lessProject locationAddress:New South Wales, AustraliaLocation to be used only as a reference. It could indicate city/country but not exact address.About this officeIAPA designOfficeMaterialsWoodSteelMaterials and TagsPublished on January 13, 2025Cite: "Mountaintop Bilpin Resort / IAPA design" 12 Jan 2025. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1025497/mountaintop-bilpin-resort-iapa-design&gt ISSN 0719-8884Save!ArchDaily?You've started following your first account!Did you know?You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users.Go to my stream

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Whenever I log into a game, the first thing I do is hop into its settings and toy around with my options to try to strike a good balance between performance and graphics. Its not exactly the most exciting first impression for a new title, but it can make my actual time spent playing a lot more seamless. Now, HP wants to automate that first hurdle away, so I can jump right into gameplay instead.Omen AI beta optimizes your settings for youAs part of its CES 2025 announcements, the company announced its "Omen AI Beta," coming to the HP Omen Gaming Hub this week. According to HP, this AI will use machine learning to provide customized adjustments to operating system settings, hardware settings, and in-game settings in just one click. Thats a lot to balance all at once, but the idea is that HP will scan your system to find out how to get max performance in your games, taking your individual setup into account, then make the needed changes for you.Like other AI, it'll need training data to pull that off. According to a spokesperson, Omen AI will use hardware specs, game configurations, and performance metrics from "millions of gaming systems" to come up with its optimizations, which it'll then apply across your game and certain compatible parts of your wider system. In order to avoid conflicts with other companies' products, its operating system changes will be limited to adjusting the "booster" settings already present in the company's gaming software, while hardware setting changes will initially only work with Omen PCs. In other words, your optimizations might be a little less effective if you don't have the right computer, but you also won't need to worry about the program breaking hardware it's not familiar with. (If you do encounter issues, there's an undo button to change back to your setting from before you enabled the AI.) Credit: HP Even with those limitations, the feature is only set to work with Counterstrike 2 at launch, so expect a measured rollout. Still, promotional material does show the tool working in Valorant as well, so hopefully HP wont abandon it after just a proof of concept.Thats really whatll make or break something like this. If it only works on a few titles, itll be great for headlines, but gamers will quickly forget about it. Integrations with other PC makers and companies like Nvidia are also possible down the line, I'm told, which could help widen the tool's user base. A wider user base also means more data to help train on, which does raise the issue of privacy. According to HP, Omen AI doesn't use any personally identifiable information to train its AI models, and users can manage their data collection consent options from within the Omen Gaming Hub software. Still, even with the promise that data is anonymous and aggregated, it's worth double checking your privacy settings if you have HP's Omen Gaming Hub installed, even if you don't plan on using AI. Credit: HP It's interesting seeing something like this come first from a computer manufacturer rather than Microsoft or Nvidia, although the tool will be open to anyone with Omen Gaming Hub installed, whether or not they have an HP PC. Both in and out-of-game, it looks like youll be able to use Omen AI to access a quick toggle that will tell you your current fps as well as what fps you can expect to get upon enabling the tool. Even if these are just mock-ups for now, they do show a commitment to ease of use. That said, maybe a bit of fine control would be helpful herewhat if Im OK with the program adjusting my in-game settings but would rather have my operating system and hardware left alone?How well Omen AI will work in reality depends on how the beta plays out and continued support. I'm rooting for it: Its also a good example of the type of AI I actually like, since it's more about eliminating tedium than replacing human creativity.New mice from HPHP also announced the HyperX Pulsefire Saga and Saga Pro mice at this year's CES, which both look pretty standard on the surface, with 8K polling, six programmable buttons, and support for up to 26,000 DPI. There are some premium features, like magnetic weights, but what really sets them apart is their 3D-printed cases. Youll get eight case parts in the box, which is enough for a full mouse, but youre also free to swap out and customize options at your leisure, by downloading new open-source case parts from HPs Printables account.The HyperX Pulsefire Saga and Saga Pro mice will both be available in March. The former costs $80, while the latter hits $120, thanks to its added wireless functionality.

Get a behind-the-scenes look at Squid Game: Season 2, the blockbuster return of the global phenomenon of Netflix. This featurette takes you through the making of the season from the intense stunts and elaborate set designs to the hilarious cast moments and on-set bloopers. You can see the dedication of the cast and crew as they bring the deadly games to life, with Lee Jung-jae and his co-stars sharing their experience and laughter in this season.Inside details include the sets themselves, created with painstaking detail, as well as shocking, high-stakes challenges; both of which put fans directly inside an artistic and technically challenging environment to work with and create for behind the camera scenes. The days were all action, sweat, and grinning all at the same time. Off-camera action indeed. Squid Game: Season 2 would, therefore, give fans thrills while on-camera. Be ready for even more heart-stopping action, surprise moments, and unforgettable memories!The post Making Of SQUID GAME: SEASON 2 appeared first on Vfxexpress.