Stockholm Public Library- Transitional Spaces

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Hi everyone, here are my final submissions for the competition. Feel free to leave me any comments, feedback, etc.

For this round of tertiary detail and texturing, I made heavy use of procedural dirt materials using Coronas AO node, as well as several techniques of layering materials with the Corona Layered Material. The people are all 2D and have been re-lit to match the scene lighting. All narrative elements are true to the concept board I posted earlier. Good luck to everyone!

City Library- Stockholm

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Concept,

For this project I have choose early morning scene inspired from the environment inside the library which is calm, scilence and peaceful. This idea triggerd while I was watching “Monsters University” were there is a library scene in which they had a task to collect there flag whithout making any noise and thats when I got the idea to make a very fresh,calm and peaceful environment and thats how I choose to go with Early morning scene were the first rays of the sun hitting the building and making it glow.

I wanted to keep surrounding as subtle as possible and have a main focus on the the library for which I shown morning rays falling on the building and the surrounding is still in quite dark.

For Interior View I was very confused between couple of camera angles and which camera would go with the exterior concept and while i was looking for references i came across couple of images were sunlight is entering inside the building and creating a beam of rays and thats what i thought will go best with my Interior view were rays of light is entering inside the library and creating a very fresh and calm environment.

For This Project I have used Corona Renderer and Forest pack. I have Used PG HDRI (0839 Cloudy Dawn) for both exterior views.

It was first time I making anyproject like this so i tried to keep it as simple and realistic as possible.

I am very happy with the final output and didnt do much of an editing in photoshop just little bit of colour correction.

I hope you like it too..

Sexy final entry

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Exterior image
My goal was not to make a classical architectural visualization, but a “portrait” of the building, so I used a 50 mm lens and a centric composition. I wanted to emphasize the round shape of the upper part by sliding low sun and the orange color of the building strongly refers to the image of the fire, so I decided to build a color composition of the frame in the low setting sun, adding to it a few barely noticeable artificial light sources to add the feel of a “cinematic” image. I wanted to bring a feeling of an unfinished scene from the film, so I used Gregory Crewdson as a reference (and a little of David Lynch, perhaps). I would like people to consider the picture, trying to make up the story themselves, so I carefully selected the details. I wanted them to create together a bright, but not obviously understandable image that people would like to consider and solve by themselves.
Philip-Lorca diCorcia as style reference. Gregory Crewdson as story reference.
50mm lens.

Interior image
I wanted to show library as a place where stories from books come alive. Therefore, I decided to use the scene from the book (having a film version) as the basis for my image. At first, I wanted to do an image based on a Harry Potter story, but then I’ve spent whole weekend watching the Lord of the Rings (and that’s was really awesome by the way). Next morning I woke up with a clear understanding that the scene of the battle of Gandalf with the balrog is a perfect story for this picture. It fits perfectly in the composition of this room, emphasizing a certain “cave” effect that the upper part of the building creates.
LOTR by Peter Jackson as a story reference.
35 mm lens.

Additional image
The idea was to show the impression of the building as abstract as possible, but at the same time understandable. In the beginning I wanted to work with reflection of water in pond but I’ve found this approach too direct. Initially, I wanted to build a story on something interesting in the puddle reflection, so I tried various animals and elements, but then I realized that only the building itself should have main focus in the reflection. I decided to support the story of the exterior shot and add a pigeon to combine these 2 images into one series.
Robert Frank as a story reference. Hugh Ferriss as a concept reference
50mm lens.

Final Images

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Hey everybody, I’ve just finished up putting together my PDF to turn in, so here are the final images I created! My main goal was to put together a story line that ties the three images together. I needed the images to have more than just the building in common in order for there to be a story, so I photographed the same girl and used her as the main character for each different view. We follow her on a day spent at the library, from waiting for the doors to open, to walking home after a rainstorm. I’m really happy with the way each image turned out, and I learned a few new tricks throughout the process!

G.Asplund’s Library visualization by Anna Cholan

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This competition was very interesting experience for me. The more I learned about the library, the more I
understood how much it overcome. Its architecture shows how important knowledge is in our lives.

When I felt architecture I want to combine its majesty with urban ordinary life. Thus, on the exterior visualization
we can see the light of the rising sun which illuminates the house of knowledge.

For the bustle of everyday life, we forget about the important things that shaped us. We must remember that
without knowledge we would not be today and never will be tomorrow.