Architectural design effect, And it has a more intuitive visual effect. Today's architectural design increasingly relies on rendering drawings to express and display unfinished buildings. Many architects look for experienced 3D rendering designers to help them choose the most favorable angle to display their designs.

In many cases, renderings are a convincing medium, which can be used to explain the story of buildings and express the most valuable design concepts. With such a powerful tool, architects can come up with a highly detailed and close to real plan in a short time to provide customers with a super attractive architectural blueprint.

Whether or not they are "insiders" in architecture, the legendary team MIR cannot be ignored when it comes to renderings, and their renderings have been used as "textbooks" for various processes.

The above is the renderings from MIR. It is said that the company will not counter-offer if the quotation is high; Even BIG, Zaha and Kengo Kuma had to queue up to cooperate with them; Never even listen to Party A's opinions Their architectural renderings are known as "the existence of gods".

What is the highlight of this small company in Bergen, Norway? How to achieve perfection in architectural rendering visualization?

1、 M I.R What We Do?

MIR draws "portraits" for those unfinished buildings. M.I.R is a small creative studio hidden between mountains and fjords on the west coast of Norway 1. Before R, let's enjoy their divine renderings.

The Whale designed by Dorte Mandrup

This "divine" photo, whether from Composition, tone or texture Look, they are all worthy "Best Design Sketch of the Year" MIR, a Norwegian rendering company, is the behind the scenes creator of this rendering. Other rendering companies lack customers, but MIR is picking customers.

The Whale designed by Dorte Mandrup

The lazy whale watching hall naturally conforms to the mysterious design taste of MIR. The hallucinatory and artistic flavor will be stranded Whale Tail Expressive and vivid!

There are still many works about architectural rendering in MIR's team. There are only 13 members in MIR, and these 13 people In just 7 years, the renderings have reached the top level in the industry It is reported that the single quotation is about 46000 RMB.

MIR team photo

This company coincides with the Nordic style. It is cold and low-key, with little information and no gimmicks and advertisements, only on the official website "Picturesque style" The group photos of MIR members in white coats are a bit "eye-catching".

MIR Whale Museum

MIR's renderings are better at expressing architectural concepts, and they are also the right-hand man behind these visual impact design projects, Whale Museum, The Twist, Greenland National Gallery and Lize SOHO These are MIR's world-famous works.

Lize SOHO

So far, MIR has a set of mature methods to make renderings. Lize SOHO's Cyberpunk style buildings adopt this set of "system", which has the ability to deal with the environment, atmosphere and natural environment; Continuously upgraded image quality, with unique and recognizable rendering strategy.

Lize SOHO Details

In addition to Lize SOHO, the 4-year Coal Drops Yard, located in the Cross Street of London, used a budget of 156 million pounds to transform about 93000 square meters of coal unloading yard space into a shopping mall. Two winding eaves "kiss", which is the whole The most moving place in the transformation 。

Coal Drops Yard

MIR's work preference Impulsive lights and specific tones In their works, people's expression is usually downplayed and the relationship between architecture and the surrounding environment is emphasized. MIR takes photography as the main source of inspiration and strives to show the architectural characteristics of each project to highlight its uniqueness.

Coal Drops Yard Details

MIR's works have more exploration space, and the current architectural design is increasingly dependent on Rendering drawings to express and show unfinished buildings Many architects look for experienced 3D renderings designers to help them choose the most favorable angle to display their designs.

What rendering skills are needed to support MIR's "divine" works?

2、 The Way of Architectural Rendering

1. Why do I need to render renderings?

In architectural rendering, the proportion of renderings is very important because there are renderers, They ingeniously transformed boring drawings into convincing narratives , which attracted the public, stakeholders and investors, and conveyed the core of design to them.

MIR renderings

Rendering will Plans, sections, 3D models and diagrams The ideas and meanings contained in the are reshaped into a fascinating story, which makes the architectural design cross the boundaries of disciplines and disciplines, become clear and understandable, and have a more intuitive visual effect.

For professionals with excellent technical skills and software knowledge, the creative thinking behind their renderings and their ability to Value added for design Is the essence of rendering.

Each rendering method has its own unique form of expression. Only by mastering the skills of composition, atmosphere creation and content expression can the conceptual architectural design be transformed into a more intuitive and attractive expression.

2. Architectural rendering software

A complete rendering effect of a building needs support from many steps, the most important of which is Selection and application of software In the field of building real-time rendering tools, real-time 3D visualization tools and software widely used in the fields of architecture, planning and design are all good choices.

Lumion 9.0

The professional version of Lumion includes 39 real sky backgrounds “Real Skies” In addition, it can also be used with other similar software.

High quality previews allow you to see the highest quality preview of a project before rendering. You can experience the final result in photo, movie or panorama mode, so as to enhance the texture and save time when changing the lighting, shadows, materials and camera position.

62 new fine detail natural models are the most detailed and beautiful 3D tree and plant models available in Lumion content library. These models have trees, bushes, shrubs, etc., which will enrich the modeling scene visually. Make subtle movement changes.

In addition, there are some new professional versions Customizable 3D lawn , and fur materials for carpets and soft decorations.

Real Skies display

Customizable 3D lawn

Atmospheric rain and snow display

Fur material

9.0 The common point of Basic Edition and Professional Edition is that The workflow has been updated . As Act-3D had hoped "Streamline the workflow of scenario building" , the vision has been realized so far, and the operation users can achieve it in the most light way Use assets to build building scenarios 。

Streamline the workflow of scenario building

Lumion's object library grows with each version, navigating and using more than 5600 objects. With the help of large thumbnails, it can help to find and place the correct objects for the first time, and has the function of minimizing the object library to maximize the screen space. Therefore, creating a complete and detailed building visualization is now a seamless and simple task.

Updated DWG import has been integrated into Lumion with improved. dwg and. dxf file import support and Automatic material conversion of "glass" and "water" materials 。

LiveSync for Rhino

OpenStreetMap (test function)

112 materials

Repair system

Lumion's software can also be called powerful, but so far it is not the only one. There are also the following building implementation rendering tools that can achieve expression effects.

Artlantis 2021

Artlantis of French Abbent Company is a product suitable for Architects, horticulturists, urban planners and other design professionals With the advantages of excellent rendering speed and effect quality, super user interface, and seamless connection with multiple construction software, the heavyweight renderer of has won the praise of "industrial revolution".

　　 Recently Artlantis released a new version In 2021, a new page import tool was added, allowing users to quickly align 3D buildings with 2D backgrounds.

An improved vegetation tool is added, allowing users to add multiple vegetation objects at a time, or use discrete algorithms to fill regions.

In addition to the basic tools used to visualize the landscape components of building permits, Artlantis provides a unique function of inserting in the image of the calculation project. The method of calculating the insertion of 3D models in the imported fixed views has been completely redesigned, so that it can be used more simply and smoothly. The space identification settings can be sorted step by step, and can be immediately displayed in the preview.

Vegetation tools

3D Grass

3D Grass

Model resource library

As we mentioned before, multiple construction software are seamlessly connected. Artlantis supports the import of various formats, and is compatible with a variety of DCC and CAD applications. Moreover, there are specific plug-ins for Archicad, Rhinoceros, Vectorworks, Autodesk Revi, and SketchUp.

In general, in addition to the two tools introduced today by natural light, of course, you are very familiar with UE4, which can also perform real-time rendering of architectural scenes, The tool is only an assistant, and the real effect needs more combination of design thinking.

3、 The trend of architectural visualization

Every year, we will update and improve tools and technologies to achieve better and faster development of building visualization. As an important link in architectural expression, "architectural rendering" plays a connecting role. This link not only tests the technical ability of designers, It also tests its artistic foundation.

The production process of architectural renderings is roughly "modeling rendering post production". Compared with film and television animation, rendering has increased in proportion because the production time of renderings is relatively short and simple.

Modeling - Rendering - Post Production

Moreover, from the perspective of the characteristics of the renderings themselves, rendering is more effective.

Elements contained in the renderings themselves, Generally, buildings, vegetation and people These basic elements form the renderings we see. To put it bluntly, if a building wants to highlight its characteristics and present the most intuitive visual effect, it needs to innovate in structure and rely on the rendered effect.

Imagine what the architectural renderings would look like if they were not rendered. Would they look good? Therefore, Architectural rendering is the soul of architectural expression 。

　　 So, what is the market situation of architectural rendering?

Architectural rendering has a very strong demand for market positions. According to the online search information of architectural talents, The demand for talents in rendering can reach 20000 in a single day . According to the incomplete salary statistics, the annual salary of the experienced rendering post division can reach More than 200000 。

Screenshot of a recruitment software

In recent years, with the rapid development of the architectural performance industry, the requirements for architectural renderers are also constantly upgrading. This major not only requires students to have a sense of innovation, but also needs to pay attention to the close combination of theory and practice.

　　 summary

Finally, we can easily find a complete architectural rendering work that will Experience multiple levels of analysis, research and production From the moment of its birth, architectural rendering has constantly promoted the development of visual images.

With the trend of technology integration, real-time rendering technology in the field of architectural design has been widely used, so that architects can express design results faster, and even conduct various interactive experiences.

For students majoring in architecture, the information with abstract concepts and complex contents in the works needs to be fully understood and recognized to make the design project visually presented through readable images.

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