First time becoming familiar with the building, i was quite intrigued by it’s presence, appearnig as a dark misterious cube, introverted but still merging into the environment through the sliding window screens letting the light penetrate the ‘shield’ of the facade. While like an armour on the outside, the building still appears incredibly light and spacious from the inside, with its flowing flexible spaces and the contribution of basic stone, wood and concrete materials.
What a complementary contrast to the existing environment of traditional architecure and contemplating Swedish nature. In addition to carrying the function of a museum, the building itself stands out as an exhibit, a cultural power house among its natural surrounding.
While the competition motto for the architects was Platform, and the conceptual idea was to create a series of open platforms for art and related activities, to me it felt natural to carry on the same concept, but instead, inverting the actors’ roles, making the environment the platform and museum the art.
I found inspiration in older photos of Swedish traditional country sides (references), showing the locals, their small cottages among wild flower meadows under the woods, and thier artwork (now national heritage) on local massive stones.Inspired by this ambent, i recreated a meadow among Swedish woods as the environment and this time wanted the museum to carry a bit of a ‘cabin in the woods/ cottage’ feel, with its facade panels exposed and somewhat bleached by the sun (inspired by one of the existing photos taken from the back side of the museum as well).
The composition was meant to be very simple, as used in real artwork photogrphy, frontal and symetricly centered, focusing on the details. For that reason i spent most of the time and effort working on enhancing the particularities creating the overall feel of the image. With the environment it was about an overcast impact, with the materials the small diversities and sometimes imperfections on the surface, and the meadow was about the variety and plant composition. Overall, the whole work in progress felt like a graduate and exciting process of making an envisioned image come to life.

I chose this camera angle because I want the artwork (door) to be the focal point of the image, besides, I want to show as much details as possible.
I did all the modelling in 3ds max using the drawings found in archdaily as reference. I am only modelling the elements that will be shown in this viewpoint.
I am using a Vray LIght Dome with an HDRI for the environmental lighting, the interior lights are Vray Lights as well.
Now is time to work on textures and materials, I am attaching some of the shaders I have so far.