Archmedium Competition STCenters -Second Prize-

Team: Andrea Polato, Laia Torrente Ribé
Result: Second Prize

[W.I.P.] Turin Mediatheque of Cinema V

Thre theatre is complete!

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[W.I.P.] Turin Mediatheque of Cinema

Project: Laia Torrente Ribé
3d Visualization: Andrea Polato

After my graduation project that took me about one year and a half I decided to start a new render project. It will be a cinema mediatheque in Turin, next to the most fammous building in the city: the Mole Antonelliana.
The library will be designed by a colleague and I will take care of the 3d visualization. This is a medium time work in progress, supposed to end in october. The first part to be modeled is the old ruined theatre of Turin demolished during the World War II.

Tree test

Once i finished the exterior walls i began to test the environment: I used mapped cross plane multiplyed on a surface using pflow. pflow is very useful for placing trees: I use pflow as the itoo software plugin Forest; i can decide to place tree on selected faces of the surface selecting polygon by polygon or using a vol select modifier with a noise/smoke map or a given grayscale map.

Le Chateau de Pierrefonds

For my architecture thesys i decided to talk about the Castle of Pierrefonds. I decided to rebuild it in 3ds max and render a 7 minutes sequence. I will show it during my talk. I began to model last year: the first max file was created on 24th april. it took me about one year to model the whole castle and it's not finished yet: exterior is still missing. It count about 2.300.000 polys. Here are some render of the wip. I began to render it in vray, but I decided to render the final in mental ray.


A late render with the exterior almost done


The exterior done. The gound outside the walls was taken from google earth then modified in max for better results.

Embassy Restaurant

ok. i made this some months ago. I saw it on an architecture book. I decided to recreate it in 3d graphic.
it's a restaurant in an embassy; i don't remember where.