Today the culture of image-making is dependent on the graphic and resource capacity of the digital software. With the advancement of visualization and modeling tools the images produced have been beyond perfect. They are imperfect. The amount of data shared and stored not only stimulated interest for designers to produce hyper-real images but also made it possible to enhance images with real-life details such as stains, cracks and moss.
EXIT is a digital rendering series which investigates how shared digital data can influence the culture of the image-making of an architectural space, its aesthetics and representation. With the amount of shared data and access to resources any space or scene can be achieved and represented as a reality.
The images are photorealistic scenes of fictional spaces from a basketball court to a runway stage to a portal door. They depict well-crafted compositions with a convincing level of information and recognition. They each include familiar objects and materials or one would call lifestyle details that are found online or embedded in the three-dimensional modeling software to cater more engagement for the audience.
In that sense the architecture is crafted as aesthetically pleasing scenes in familiar context yet it still deciphers its reality in detail. Unconstrained by functional reality or structural necessities, software can depict any geometry with an absolute plausibility. The images appear euphoric, delightful, sometimes wow but strange. They provoke an unusual reading. They are hyper-real. They are exits into fictional realities.
The process of designing the images rely completely on a single three-dimensional modeling and a visualization software which have the capacity to adjust environment settings, craft perfect geometries and work with catalogs of material palettes. The technique is the definition of digital craftsmanship and the images are the representation of current culture of architectural representation.
