TECH PAVILION

TECH WALL INTERIOR VIEW

This was an image made for an article for Ennead Architects. The image is mostly done in Photoshop with a very simple 3D base in Vray. The immersive sports terrace is a garden pavilion (or outdoor sports terrace) with embedded, nearly invisible technology, representing the realization of the futuristic dream of seamless technology and its potential to integrate into daily life.

1 | BASE IMAGE

For the base, we modeled a glass wall, an immersive surface for the back wall and a floor surface.

2 | PHOTOSHOP WORKFLOW

Exterior Landscape

Landscape Reflections

Exterior Benches

A | BACKGROUND LANDSCAPE

Since the landscape is part of a tech screen wall, getting the reflections right was very important. This was done by duplicating the landscape image layer, moving it up & down, then adjusting the opacity. To create a better effect, I also added the 'multiply' blending option in both layers.

Copy of Screen Glow

Screen Texture

Floor Color

Screen Details

B | SCREEN LIGHTING

Simply select the screen wall in the material ID layer and paint it white. Then, use the outer glow blending option to add a glowing screen effect to this layer.

Blending Option Outer Glow Effect

C | TECH DETAILS

To add a tech feeling to the space, I added a few infographics to the floor and exterior wall. I also added a dotted texture to the screen wall, giving it a digital look and a nice Cyan tone.

Landscape Texture

Winter Texture

Blue/Purple Tones

D | SCREEN IMAGERY

The main idea for this pavilion is that you can play tennis with someone anywhere in the world, and they can choose their own screen settings. For this image, I chose to represent that by adding a winter scene to the digital screen of the second player. For our side of the screen, I extended the landscape texture, making it look like the space continuous beyond the ceiling.

Don’t forget that bringing all the elements together makes a great image. In this case, I added a little bit of the blue and purple tones from the winter scene to the left side of the image.

E | ENTOURAGE

Choosing the right entourage can make or break the image. Focus on finding cutouts that will enhance the overall rendering. In this case, the pink tones in their outfits balance well with the greens and purples tones.

To make the second player (to the right) look like she is part of the digital screen, I added a motion blur effect (a Photoshop filter).

F | FINAL DETAILS

It's not a tennis match without a yellow tennis ball! In this case, the tennis ball is part of the tech experience, so I added a movement effect by multiplying the tennis ball a few times as if the screen is tracking all movements.

This also helped to bring some of the yellows from the landscape background, into the winter scene.