Pictures of Models, Models from Pictures

SCI_Arc Visual Studies / Fall 15'

Instructor : Anna Neimark

Models, renders and photographs in architecture are often for the purpose of representation or for project processing. In this visual studies seminar, we have been engaging these three elements in different purposes. Thinking about the photographs as an element of investigation would diminish the importance of the object photographed, and emphasis on the photograph as an object by itself and a driver for modeling and designing.

In this project we have been studying a photograph of the Dolmen de Gohquer. Out of this photograph we engaged the modeling of the dolmen. The angle in which the image is taken provides the basic information of the orthogonal Cartesian plan. After remodeling the dolmen basing on this information, a render will be a replacement of the original photograph and the initial base for the physical model.

Two models were built for the dolmen digitally modeled; one is a stick model translating the position of each rock using three sided of a bounding box. The second model is a panoramic translation of the rock morphology; this is determined by the shadow registered on the surfaces.

In Collaboration with: Tri Ta, Eui-Hyuk Choi

Unrolled Dolmen

Stick Rock Model