Robot’s Head

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A bridge from the future to the past. Business and cultural center, arts quarter and history museum, enclosed in a glass castle, where the remains of the ruins of the Royal Castle are kept.
The history of the city and some of its parts is of great value, the combination of times as an asset in the form of two objects with a sad fate. The royal castle, badly damaged during the war, was a symbol of Königsberg, its most important building dominant. After the region became part of the USSR and the city was renamed Kaliningrad, the authorities decided to demolish the ruins of the castle, for political reasons there was no question of restoring it. 20 years later, Soviet architect Lev Misozhnikov designed the House of Soviets to manage the Kaliningrad Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and in the 70s its construction began on the site where the castle was located.
For various reasons, the construction of the building was not completed, becoming another symbol of the city, but already the city of Kaliningrad. For its bizarre shape, similar to a “robot’s head” sticking out of the ground, the city dwellers gave this name to this building. For several years, the House of Soviets never found its purpose, being empty in the very heart of Kaliningrad.
In my project, I created a solution that, in my opinion, could give this building a second life and remind about history – from the symbol of Konigsberg to the symbol of Kaliningrad.
Originals https://we.tl/t-AzZoJ2XTu3

“Evanescent”

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For this project, my approach is a bit different than usual. I thought it’ll be more interesting to come up with something “expressionist”,
This gave me more artistic freedom and flow of ideas that are not bounded by any rules and standards.

Instead of conveying an absolute reality (or projected reality), I created something that may not be possible to build in real life. Still somehow architecturally designed, the basic goal is to create images that express a much colorful and solid meaning.

I tried to dig deeper on the word “converted” and come out with the idea of “constant change”, which simply means that any state of everything will soon change to something.

An old farm converted to a church (could be anywhere).

The cloth symbolizes constant movement ( as its shape is dictated by the wind and whatever it covers)
This implies that life is movement and we can only control what will happen as much as we can but nature will still take its course.

The covered trees mean the temporary state of things;

An ugly naked tree can be dressed up and still look majestic.
But it cant be covered forever as the season will soon change and it’ll grow into a much beautiful tree with green leaf and flowers.

The wrapping of trees is inspired by the works of Christo and Jeanne-Claude https://christojeanneclaude.net/.
Their work is sometimes not accepted when it’s currently installed but it’ll look majestic and beautiful now looking at the photos and prints.
Those art installations are examples of what I’m trying to convey, that no matter how good or bad things are, they’re all just temporary.
That we all have a choice to keep the good memory and leave the bad ones behind.

The structure resembles a church with no altar;

Aside from being open and free, this symbolizes hope and fate, that as though we know that everything won’t last, were always promised a new tomorrow is coming.
It may or may not be the same as what we have today but we rely on our faith to be positive that it’ll be a better one.

Those dandelions in the field symbolize hope( we usually blow on its flower and make a wish)

The olive tree in the middle symbolizes peace and prosperity which we all desire( feel free to google it 🙂

Overall, I tried to somehow give a positive vibe to everyone suffering or on the bad side of what’s going on around the world.
That no matter how crazy things are right now… these all shall pass 🙂

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The third Ronda

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The three images are showing how the architecture took place in this initial wild and burned environment. The sequence is backward. The third shot is showing the majesty of the Ronda bridge, alone, surrounded by poor landscaping, rocks and dry vegetation.
The final two shots are describing how the new architecture is integrated with one of the oldest tradition of agriculture in Spain, the production of golden juice of the olive fruit. The olive oil factory kept the old use of the bridge but it changed the environment, creating fields for the growing of olive trees. It converted also the purpose of the land not just the function of the bridge. It is a matter of respect for the connection between OLD and NEW.

Images with better quality:
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Home

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The story for the images is based on the state where people with financial snags end up taking a mine as a shelter.  I wonder if everyone on earth has a place to stay without having to fight the economical battle half of their life maybe could focus more on other issues such as environmental problems, preserving the wildlife which is getting extinct, etc. in a much better way.

Image 0ne 

How far is actually far? Being far is relative as time is, isn’t it? And being far from home makes the distance definitely a lot far. We feel it, we miss that comfort, where we feel protected with our loved ones with the sense of belonging.  With that thought in the first image, I would like to picture a man waiting for his brother to get back home where they live together. For now, it’s their Home

Image Two

Our educational system tells us that we can all be big-ass winners. It hasn’t told us
about the gutters or the suicides. Or the terror of one person aching in one place alone. Those were the lines of Charles Bukowski. Unfortunately, those lines are still facts of our generation. In this image, I would like to show that a family surviving under the mine and how it’s being converted. A small space which has been converted a Bathroom. I wanted to create a feeling that there are children living there also.

Image Three

It’s an idea that if a person’s lifespan is a tree, then the branches of the tree would be its stages and events of his life. Like each tree, society finds its ways to live. It’s my imagination, around those vast coal mines which the settlers have moved into have created a society, an underground ecosystem. I wanted to create a glimpse of the vegetable market, which is situated along the tunnels for the underground communities.

Thank you

Bellevue Beach – Wellness Center

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The site is located north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is a a beautiful building from the 1930’s, originally designed by the renowned Danish architect Arne Jacobsen.

I believe that restorations or repurposing of existing buildings is a very subtle art, it is important to come up with a concept that will both respect the original design and add some well deserved functionality to it. This is why many of the changes done are carefully fitted within the existing layout, with no major changes to the structure and the essence of the building itself. Luckily for me, the interior of the building was mostly empty, so organizing the space once I figured out what I envisioned was relatively easy. The exterior is in part restored to it’s original form or very similar to what it was; white panels with thin gaps and white metal windows, but this time I used the modules and the rhythm to create “frames” that emphasize the surrounding landscape (most notably the massive frame facing the sea, where the yoga/meditation practices would take place). As a final touch and to highlight the purpose of the new building, I kept the original standing clock and restored it, but removed the needles. There is also a number of small support modules along the beach that go together with the main building, these are also restored and modified to fit the new criteria and aesthetic, using the “frame” shape as the tying element of the group.

This is an area that people already use a lot for activities related to contemplation, meditation, and appreciation of the landscape. Since I thought this is an excellent aspect to focus and promote (specially after such a grueling last year for tons of people) designing a multi-purpose-wellness-focused building seemed like a sensible approach.

For the creation of this project I used geodata from the Danish government to create a landscape mesh in 3ds Max, then I modeled the rough shapes of the buildings and started sculpting the details. I used Unreal Engine 4.26 as my main tool for visualization, so my workflow was mainly modeling in 3ds Max, then texturing using the Substance Suite (I have to say I’m shocked how easy and intuitive it was to use, specially Alchemist to make textures like the sand, which I made merging many pictures I took on site), and then straight to Unreal. Most of the assets on the scene I modeled and textured from scratch, save a few ones, like the Quixel rocks at the shore and some other nature assets.

ANIMATION LINK

https://sendgb.com/1hTnZv9RcMj

REAL TIME LINK

https://sendgb.com/Z5Y3hp8urLS

REAL TIME Pre recorded footage LINK

https://sendgb.com/l9T87e2diOb