Tomorrow Challenge 2018 entry by User-16180394

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As you can probably tell already, the corten material is quite a challenging one. I had to do some reading on corten and look at some reference images. What I found out was that the steel actually comes “unweathered” or “unrusted” and it gets that rust look over time by exposure to the elements. So what we see in the ArchDaily reference photos are parts of the building weathering and aging at different stages due to each panel’s different exposure to the sun and rain. I thought the best way to show that the purple-ish and greyish parts of the panel were actually “unweathered” was to show that those parts were more reflective than their weathered counterparts.

In my earlier attempts I tried to come up with a procedural process that would emulate this weathering pattern, but to no avail. After what it felt like hitting my head against the wall for a couple of days I realized: there’s no other way, I have to unwrap the UVW. It wasn’t a big deal, as I had already unwrapped the building to create the joint between the panels as displacement. And after just one afternoon creating the diffuse and reflection UVs in photoshop I realized that I should have decided to do that way earlier. Lesson learned for me.

In a better reference photo I saw that the guardrail on the roof is actually made up of perforated panels, not glass. So I “unshelled” the existing glass model and applied a simple opacity map to the rail’s planes.

Tomorrow Challenge 2018 entry by User-16180394

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My idea was to insert a person with typical architecture student items to help the viewer instantly understand that the proposed building has something to do with architecture. That, coupled with the surrounding buildings, now any viewer from Stockholm should instantly understand that this is a building for the architecture school without it having to be explained to them verbally. The narrative should be self-evident by now. It’s about a young architecture student going to school, earlier than most of everyone, to finish her project. Projects in architecture school are notorious for taking a long time to finish, so it’s common for students to pull all-nighters or come earlier to class to finish projects.

To make that idea work I set up a makeshift “studio” and asked my girlfriend to borrow her mom’s architectural things from her time as a student. Luckily it was overcast while we were shooting, otherwise I would have had to do the photoshoot inside. I added colored gels to the lights in the same direction as the sun to simulate the light from the early morning. The lights served just as an additional highlight, with the ambient light from the overcast day doing most of the lighting.

In order to blend in the photo I shot of my girlfriend as an arch student, I took a free 3D model from Renderpeople and used it as a placeholder to cast the correct shadow. I edited the model so there were no high heels and to include both the folder and the tube props.

Tomorrow Challenge 2018 entry by User-12876113

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Just an ordinary day in Stockholm. It’s about 12:30PM, lunch time, and summertime.
In looking for some original camera angle, I decided to take this one from everyday situation.
My goal was to show the quality of architectural design and realistic materials of this masterpiece, but also a little bit of old buildings and environment in facade glass reflection.

Tomorrow Challenge 2018 entry by User-14743743

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once I have seen the building and the surroundings I realized on thing , that the main building and surrounding building colors are so similar which make the building a part of the environment whic is a good thing archticturaly but when it comes for taking a shot conentrating on the building this similarity makes a distraction for the eye.
this Idea that i have will effect my dessision taking the camera and which environment and mood should I use.

for camera i decided to take a vertical shot to reduce the ammount of buildings in the main shot (we can show them in different shots), also diveided the shot for two two pieces , the upper half fore the sky and the lower mostly for the floor and buildings .
the main building will be centered in the shot to give it all the focus ,also the contrast between the sky and floor will help on focuing on the main building.

for the environment I decided to use a clear morning sky ,tried to avoid cloudy sky , and that is because the rusty looking of the building and rough texture of the floor and surrounding buildings makes the scene very crowded , so I tried to make the scene little bit quite by using a clear sky.