Villa M

Yet another challenge. Harsh terrain, complicated reconstruction of the old building in order to create a new one. Result – New quality of life for a bigger family, creation of two terraces, each one oriented in a different direction. Separation from the street, a lot of glass surfaces, ecological approach.

I recently had the opportunity to photograph this interesting architectural structure. Difficult conditions and complicated architecture was not a challenge for the architect only but also for me. A lot of glass surfaces, photographing in various parts of the day and complicated lighting conditions create some real changes here.

Photographing the interior required a superior effort to lighting it properly. For the exterior instead, I used a special technique called "architectural light painting". Shooting at dusk, I gradually flash lighted certain areas of the house, which I later masked in software to the final image. Such a view of the house, would just not be possible at twilight, under the given lighting conditions. The building was simply not sufficiently illuminated.