Arianna Chamberlin Wilson
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TEMPIETTO
Tempietto PDF Layout with text
Computer rendering is an inherently virtual or "unreal" activity; the image you create mimics the physical world in its forms, lights and materials, but is nonetheless created.
Rather than work against this fact, one of our major aims in creating these renderings of Donato Bramante’s Tempiettio in Rome was to amplify this sense of unreality. Hence a purple sky, a flock of fishes and a school of birds, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe gesturing to the travertine interior of the dome.
These various contextualisations all reveal something about the building; show it in a different manner, in one of the night renders the building almost looks like an observatory, a function which its form could possibly suggest. The flock of fishes were put into the dome as a reaction to the fact that extreme perspectival views can sometimes feel almost inverted, as though you are looking down rather than up.
These renders are quite happy not being real.
These renderings were created with MauriceNovak
MENDELSOHN
The aims behind this rendering were somewhat limited, I was trying to find my way around 3DS Max as much as anything else, trying to look at the world in a really detailed way and bring that across in a rendering. I'm not confident that this really happened, but it did necessitate that re-evaluation of what your eyes percieve, the lights and the colours of the world you look at every day.
This is a building that has no context of its own apart from a sheet of paper in a book, it was never built, so it is almost possible to put it in any environment. I was essentially trying for a kind of desert like environment in the early evening, with the red and the slightly muted light.
By putting it in this suggested context it is apparent how wrong it is there. But that contextual flexibility is one of the most impressive conceptual features of a rendering I think, the render screen can be anywhere and nowhere at the same time.
This model was completed with YuechinPhoon
