How the light moves
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How the light moves
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#2I've always wondered why architectural renderings were so austere. This explains it.
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#3I've always wondered why architectural renderings were so austere. This explains it.
It makes a lot of sense, though - interior decorations change (with very few exceptions, e.g. the French communist party HQ, which came pre-equipped with Niemeyer-designed furniture). Light impressions don't and have a lot of practical and emotional effect on how space is used.
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#4If the author kept all the detail in the rendering, there’s a risk the client wouldn’t like and ask to change, even though it’s not part of the architecture’s office job.
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#5This is really applicable to product prototyping. Too low-fidelity and people lose the ability to engage with the idea and/or feel like it’s a real product. Too high-fidelity and people get hung up on the finer details - illustration choice, incorrect descriptive text etc.
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#6>> Wasn’t the point of this exercise that the client get the most accurate idea of what the finished space would look like?
I think what he had was more what the finished space could look like. Interior design/decoration is not what the architect was providing.
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#7See also Subtract by Leidy Klotz, which examines how problems can often be more easily solved by removing rather than adding, contrary to our natural bias.
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#8> The architect designs the building. Nothing more, nothing less.
That can include interior design too, e.g., Frank Lloyd Wright.
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#9I drive past a company called "Architectural Surfaces" - I've always wanted to stop by and see if they sell renderite.
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#10I suspect this is why everything is grey in the housing market. It's terrible that this results in the loss of so much richly colored and textured natural wood, stone, etc. in all of our older housing stock.