Tomorrow Challenge entry by User-16630605

From the initial idea to the final image, this task was a continuous process for me. I initially imagined a very simple scene and it ended up containing only 3 elements (the museum, the meadow and the forest). They were positioned at the very begining, so everything else came to building it up and working on the details and small enhancements to make it ‘come to life’.
I tried to build the materials to look as they were somewhat exposed to the life in nature and give them a bit more reflectivity to correspond to the overall overcast feel to the image.

Tomorrow Challenge entry by User-16630605

// This is a re-upload of a wip i am not sure was posted because i couldn’t find it.

Getting familiar with the project, i studied the plans and the architects’ concept of the building. Understanding the plans and modelling the museum helped me start thinking about my own concept as well. The building itself appeared in a way like an artwork to me and i felt it merged very well with the natural surrounding. I started looking foe references…

Tomorrow Challenge entry by User-16630605

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.