Dusk river station

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Hi.
I am sharing you one of the most important project for me, this is the final stage of a long and hard process of eight years of University, it’s my Architecture graduation project: “SPORTS INFRASTRUCTURE: Access station to Mapocho River”. Santiago, Chile.
The concept born from creating a station that brings access to the Mapocho river as a new public space in Santiago, capital of Chile, and upgrading of poor sport infrastructure of the city.
The project was modeled on Rhinoceros from the concept and the context and details completed at 3dsmax.
For the images, I tryed a different atmosphere than common sunny days, something more evocative and thinking in the actual local autumn season.
And Render engine was Corona Renderer 1.5, then just some people in Photoshop for post-production and some minor adjustments at Ligthroom.
I hope you like it.
Thanks for the space.

The Musicians House

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I remember seeing the ‘quietness’ posted on Archdaily a while ago and loved the architectual details and thought the space made intricate interiors. I never got round to modelling it until a couple of weeks ago, i looked at the photo’s and began to build up the walls and main elements of the interior, i then decided to put a twist on the interior and create something for a musician.
I used an online book cover designer to create around 50 book cover designs, i then mirrored placed each one into photoshop leaving a central strip clear to which i added text for the spine of the book when UVW mapped.
A lengthy process but worth the gain in assets
The floor is made with floor generator and CG source timber texture with a dirt and scratch map blended over the top.
F 5.6 i thought was the most sucessful for the soft shallow DOF
My composition was driven by attempting to create a continous circle of interest running from left to right (bottom left lead in line to piano – picture – pot plant – table flowers and repeating to keep the eye moving across.
The scene was lit by a peter guthrie HDRI, late afternoon which i felt helped with the idea of calmness. i wanted to bring the light in and across the piano as i did plan on comping in a pianist sitting on the stool playing the piano but i think it took away the idea of the initial concept – the dilema of reading another book or play the piano?

New York Office Building

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The concept itself uses planar rotation as a basis for the individual floors with a strong core which encapsulates the elevators as well as the main stairwell. The proposal aims to use extruded glass with different angles in order to obtain a unique look for the reflections of the surrounding buildings while also giving the building a transparent and almost weightless feel. There are various small balconies on each of the floors so that the personnel can enjoy some outdoor time when on break wherever they may be located in the construction.