Compositing Spaces

Abstract

Digital tools are used in the designing of spaces or the representation of architectural projects. Apart from bidimensional architectural plans and photorealistic visualization, computer-generated animation is becoming increasingly prevalent in architectural representation. Technically, this medium is throwing a bridge to cinematography. Compositionally, however, a whole new field of its own is opening up.

At this point Compositing Spaces cuts in. It points up the ways in which architectural animation may compositionally borrow from the world of cinematography. Co-operation with architectural visualizers, film specialists, and phenomenological psychologists brought forth a mode of expression that implements the compositing technique, i.e. the joining and animating of digital pictural elements. On the strength of high-resolution stills, a genuine pictorial language has evolved that not only improves upon narrative structures and haptic properties, but whose cost is reasonable, too.