The challenge of Tomorrow entry by flow

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Here’s few work in progress images.
I aked myself how the new architecture of Hudson Yards would be In my concept’s scenari. Tthe new architecture should be flexible to adapt to the fast changing urban layout. The new architecture should also be modular and of course based on recycling. So I brings to mind the Bjarke Ingels project for Copenaghen harbour (https://www.dezeen.com/2016/09/22/big-bjarke-ingels-shipping-containers-floating-student-housing-urban-rigger-copenhagen/). Then I modeled the base module of the composition that will be assembled in my project in different ways: this is a fast render to have a quick idea of materials and shapes.
The second image represent a fast study of one of the main material in my scene: water. I made a fast model of a speedboat I would like to use in my scene and worked on water material (are two materials one for the surface and a volume material for the underwater box). I also modeled and worked on the wave boat both in modeling and texturing (foam). I don’t have any plugin to make this (I hope one day I could buy Phoenix FD…) so I have to work with sculpting and texturing.
I usually work on main materials since first steps of my worlflow and I usually don’t use clay renders because I think PBR materials could affect lighting so much and clay renders may distort colours and light effects. In this way I can swich from modelinig to texturing when I’m a bit tired specially in big scenes (obviously these are only base materials that are going to be improved in the texturing phase).
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The challenge of Tomorrow entry by flow

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Hi everybody,
here’s a first composition study for one of the image I would like to submit. The base image (shown below as grayscale conceptual mass) has a squared composition and it is based on these main contrasts:
– light/dark: the upper part is the new city so it has to be lighted and full of life. Meanwhile the lower part has already been taken by Nature so it will be darker
– chaos/calm: the upper part of the image shiuld represent the speed of humans’ life (sloping lines) while the bottom has to represent the calm of the Nature (horizontal lines).
– hourglass: the concept of the project is based on “time”. Humans must quickly readapt their cities in a race against time. The shape of the Vessel and the wake of the boat on the water design a hourglass.
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Francesco

The challenge of Tomorrow entry by flow

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The first effect of the rising sea level will probably be a modification of the urban layout of coastal cities. Cities are called to rise, raising roads and readapting existing buildings meanwhile Nature will reappropriate the lower spaces of the old city. It’s a race against time: will humans manage to reconcile with overwhelming Nature? Men have to reconvert their life in a more sustainable way as quickly as possible.
I imagined Hudson Yard’s exterior of the future as a layered space where the lower part has already been covered by water and is reachable by boat. The upper part are occupied by reconverted buildings and ongoing building sites. In this context the lanscape platform is going to be rebuilt several meters above.