Following up on my previous progress, i took time to compare my work with the existing built project. The model provided is a good starting base that needs quite some work to get it right with the actual existing School.

So, i took to looking for various references online that’s the plans and photos to try and have a better guide to work with or from. The plans i came across were of quite low resolution and some details had to be eye-balled so as to come up with somewhat a convincing model.

When i was a little satisfied with the model, i got to rethinking the shot frame. I thought a more dynamic frame like the one of the reference photo showing the Entrance would be a good fit. So i modified the frame in order to have more dynamism.

I maintained the mood, however, i played around with the rotation of the light so that i could have the warm reddish dusk light wash one side of the facade and also have the light leading into the background of the image.

Then i got to tweaking the main material for the facade, that is the corten sheets. I have two layers of cladding both with corten sheets except for the outer most being perforated. So using unwarp in max, i created a base for the corten that i later on baked-in in photoshop. The material itself was created with Bitmap2material with samples that i gathered online.

Once i was satisfied with the material, i got to working on the artificial lights so as to archive a chromatic contrast with the natural blue/reddish light. this lighting also creates an interesting change in the corten between the parts of the corten that are lit and those in the dark.

Still working on a couple of details but this is as far as i’ve gone.