Beyond Architecture
Exploring architecture visualization through something more than buildings.
Beyond Architecture
Beyond architecture tries to capture the feeling that built architecture gives to people. The goal of reaching feelings through images makes an photorealistic visualization something more than just lights, reflections and materials, but also climate accuracy, vegetations studies or even people cloathing, helping others to place this image in the context. When a building is designed in Denmark or Norway, it will be rainy or cloudy most of the time, while if its in Italy or Spain, there will be most likely sun, and yellowish colours.
A postproduction effort
During this years of self-learning, maybe because of lack of technical knowledge of 3ds Max, or simply because of preferences of softwares, half the effort on every piece was placed on the postproduction in Photoshop. From hours looking for the people that where supposed to be placed, to composition, light distribution and environmental effects.
Special references for this piece, "Great Flood", were the work of MIR and Forbes Massie, one for the treatment of the climate elements into the renderings (rain, fog, snow...), and the latter for the ability to capture almost 18th century paintings lights
Environment vs Building
As an architect, the challenge of giving the environment more value than the building itself is always difficult, but it gives the special extra to the image.
As part of a theoretical project, this two pieces of the same serie of a building based on near future (even more now considering the Covid situation), where pollution force people to stay inside the air-cleaning shell/facade of their houses.
Fog environment modifier is just the begining of the atmosphere needed on this project. More than a hundred layers later, the level or dirty air and pollution is achieved.
Fixed and flexible visualization
Having the approach of an architect towards visualizations, this serie, called Pulse because of the hability to change depending on the situations, exemplifies how a visualization itself can be different from another working just with furniture, light and people, leaving the architecture untouched.
The serie Pulse tries to go through the various uses this master thesis project can have inside.
Composition and Perspective
Last but not least, a consideration about composition and camera angle. More and more, thanks to the availability of aerial photos of places thanks to drones, an increasing number of visualization select the aerial view as the main one, higher than the bird view, as it gives a different angle of the project. A greater understanding of how it integrates with the urban or landscape environment.
Composition is there as well as a master rule for visualization, inheriting principals and guidelines from photography and painting. Here is presented one of the many composition test taken into account during the process of showing this mega industrial theoretical building.
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