Renders of a Chilean Building (Finalist for Mies Van der Rohe prize)

[tricky]

This was a college asigment (due yesterday) of planning/modeling/rendering an existing building and i choose this one, Manantiales Building, that was a finalist for the Mies Van der Rohe prize.

It was modeled using Autocad 2004, since the plans were done there and i needed the precision i cant find in 3DS (or that i dont know how to use yet...). Renders were done in Max 5.1.

Any critics/tips/help would be apreciated, since it's my first big rendering project, and i just started using textures and ligthing....

The actual building

 

 

Hall, with a marble? (marmol) wall

exterior views

[monkeyboy]

is this a UFB? Unidentified flying building? watch out with those standard max skies, they tend to make a rendering immediatly bad... better use a good old home made blue gradient background, they are more nutral.

[ShaMan2]

Actually, I rather like the Magritte effect of placing the building in the sky. Sometimes I get tired of looking at "realistic" images. That got my attention.

 

--Lisa

[Richard McCarthy]

Hi Tricky

 

I think it's a fine first attempt, the modeling is very good, and accurate from what I can see.

But I think you need to improve on your lighting /material/ texture handling. The textures are not what I would expected, and UV assignment isn't quite right (from the interior screenshot) The material properties wasn't set right either, it's either too reflective, or not reflective enough. (Compare to the photo)

 

 

But it's still a good model, lots of potential to improve upon it happy tuning