APEC Mandala Kim Boi
Kim Boi
Vietnam
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DEVELOPER: APEC Group
ARCHITECT: Kume Sekkei
PRODUCERS: Nhi Hoang
ART DIRECTOR: Trinh Thai
CG VISUALISERS: Cuong Pham, Hieu Nguyen, Hoang Nguyen, Quang Truong, Trinh Thai
Good architecture should respond to its context–and we believe so should good architecture CG visuals. However, where architecture doesn’t respond well to the given context, we believe, it’s our duty as visualisers to highlight such issues without jeopardising our clients’ endeavours, or the integrity of our artworks. This series of CG images depicting a proposed block of overbuilt high-rise buildings that disturb the fragile balance of this picturesque environment aims to highlight the issues by carefully contrasting nature vs construction, space vs cluster, organic shapes vs lines, soft vs hard… The images highlight the imbalance of the proposed architecture vs the given nature without jeapardising the visual balance of the overall image. Each image has been carefully composed to highlight the issues to the trained eyes whilst offering visually appealing visuals for the general public.
Whilst creating these images, we were reminded by this beautiful poem by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse:
"I came to the mountains for beauty,
And I find here the toiling folk,
On sparse little farms in the valleys,
Wearing their days like a yoke.
White clouds fill the valleys at morning;
They are round like great billows at sea,
And roll themselves up to the hill-tops,
Still round as great billows can be.
The mists fill the valleys at evening;
They are blue as the smoke in the fall,
And spread all the hills with a tenuous scarf
That touches the hills not at all.
These lone folk have looked on them daily.
Yet I see in their faces no light;
Oh, how can I show them the mountains
That are round them by day and by night?"
Poem by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (1869–1948)