Marine Research Center Renderings for a Lab Built Over a Tidal Pool
A foundation set up by the local municipality and marine researchers is planning a research center on the Lofoten coast in Norway: a 42-meter ring over a natural tidal pool, with labs and a public exhibition. We rendered it from the air, the water, the bridge and inside.
Client & Market Context
A Research Foundation Presenting a New Kind of Coastal Lab
Our client is a foundation set up jointly by the local municipality and marine researchers. It is developing a research center on the rocky Lofoten coast, where scientists will run their observations and share them with visitors in a public exhibition, and it needed a marine research center rendering set that explains the idea at a glance.
Showing a Building Whose Meaning Changes With the Tide
The main challenge of research center architectural rendering here is that the idea lives in the relationship between the building and the water, not in the facade. A single beauty shot would show a ring on piles, so the renders had to answer four questions.
Visual Results
The Finished Marine Research Center Image Set
The set follows the route to the building: the coast from the air and from a helicopter, the ring in sun and under cloud, the research boat and the rooms inside.
Free guide: 38 renders took three meetings, and seven views would have done it
Before a space like the one above gets built, it has to get past a room of people: a board, a brand team, a landlord, sometimes planning. Most commercial rendering orders ignore who is in that room, and our priced composite ran to 38 images, three meetings and $25,918. The guide shows the seven views that answer each of them, for $3,100, and the short brief to send us.
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views: eight exteriors from the air, a helicopter, a boat and the bridge, and four interiors
- 3states
of light and weather: low sun, an overcast sky and a storm over the sea
- 42m
diameter of the ring, left open on the sea side around a natural tidal pool
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bridge from the shore, the visitor route into the inner gallery and the exhibition
A building about the tide cannot be explained by one picture. Rendering the same coast in several states made the idea of an open ring over a tidal pool clear at a glance.
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