k67 kiosk red and yellow, made in Blender

PROJECT DATE & PLACE

2022, personal project, Vevey, Switzerland

MY ROLE

Idea / Image editing / 3D procedural modelling / Rendering / Animation & video

Many thanks to the Blender community for guidance in this project.

Credits: Floor textures by the talented BlenderKit contributors / Spaceship models by SpaceshipGenerator / Brutalist soldiers: original head model by VistaPrime (here heavily altered and decimated).

 

BRUTALISM, BLENDERISED! –

BLENDER

Brutalism, Blenderised! is my current project inspired by post-WW2 Yugoslav brutalist architecture. As a child born in the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia in the late 70s, the K67 kiosk was part of my daily landscape, buying chewing gum, bus tickets, ice cream or comic books. As for the commemorative monuments, I visited a few on school field trips and they have been an integral part of my iconographic and conceptual horizon ever since.

This project aims to resuscitate a few brutalist architectural structures, using them as the primary source of inspiration yet placing them in an unusual setting, with a dystopian or sci-fi twist.

The modelling and rendering is entirely done in Blender and relies heavily on the geometry nodes to speed up and enhance the creative process.

This page will grow as the project progresses and new structures are created.

skyscrapers with half-moon-shaped windows seen from below at night with a few lights on.
modular living quarters with person in the window staring outside
an array of soldier busts carrying a helmet with a star and a rifle on right shoulder
kosmaj monument inspired structure
brutalist building with a person waiting outside and a spaceship approaching from the right
two skyscraper buildings linked with short bridge and a revolving restaurant on top
Genex Tower seen through futuristic high tech tunnel