Slow living

Slow Living

I am Itziar Etayo, architect and passionate about architectural visualization. Here I show my final project for the Master in VR completed during the last year at 24 studio Lab, Autodesk Certified center.

The choice of the project

To complete my studies and specialization at Archviz, I wanted to choose an architectural work aesthetically beautiful, but also a work that transmitted certain emotions by choosing the appropriate images.

Meraviglia Slow Living hotel ticked all the boxes. You just need to know their philosophy:

"It is about taking a calmer and more balanced approach your everyday life and giving yourself the time to reevaluate what's really important."

Water: the key

Calm, peace, disconnection, "letting flow" and the sound of water. Getting a good water texture was my obsession for a long time. Water was the key. I wanted to arouse the emotion of slow living in the viewer.

It's not just photorealism, it's the emotion

The emotion, the evocation of a past experience or a dreamed future. Not everything is the search for photorealism in archviz. The point of view, the plasticity of the image, the art.

The interior remains linked to the environment

The windows as the frame of a large canvas with the prominence of water.
Although in Ambient Oclusion takes place an approximation of Global Illumination that emulates the complex interactions between the diffuse inter-reflection objects, this realistic effect has no comparison with the final image. When adding the exterior environment, the interior image makes sense.

The same thing happens based only on the exterior views. Everything makes sense in the interior-exterior union.

The importance of experience

After exploring the possibilities of 3D images, I also had the opportunity to recreate one of the hotel suites in a virtual environment, through which it is possible to tour it, enjoy the views, listen to the water, and experience an unforgettable sunset. Feel, at least for a few moments, the emotion of slow living.