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Le Corbusier chose the name “Citrohan” when he was searching for a sponsor to realize the project and he tried with Citroen. At first it seemed like Citroen was pleased about it, but in the end nothing came out of it.

At the time cars were still considered quite novelty, which is why Le Corbusier was searching for a car manufacturer since his houses were conceived to be “smart” as cars, and because he had a general thought about cities that involved cars as some kind of “saviours”.

The scene is made from the transcript of a perspective designed by Le Corbusier in 1922.

The project has been carried out, with the contribution of the Italian Ministry of University and Scientific Research (MUR), in the ambit of the PRIN 2005 project entitled:

VIA - Virtual Interactive Architecture.

The research group was coordinated by professor Riccardo Migliari of the “Sapienza “ University in Rome.
It was further formed by Professor: Andrea Casale, Marco Fasolo, Paola Quattrini and Graziano Valenti.
Arch. Marco De Angelis, study grant, also gave a precious and valuable help.

The scene is made by RGB infografia.

A schematic overview of the full hotel and some external views:

A closer look at the round pool area:

The recreational bath area:

The inside of the Hotel:

In addition to the VisuAll based production, a book has been printed. It uses both architectural drawings, pre-renderings and screenshots from the real-time production:

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Nykredit was very excited about the possibility to present their new large headquarters, in the center of Copenhagen, as a real-time computer model in high quality 3-D Stereo. Nykredit therefore decided to use both the real-time capabilities of VisuAll and the ColorCode 3-D system, which add true depth and perspective in full color to the visual and interactive realism in the real-time visualization.

VisuAll supports hardware accelerated ColorCode 3-D encoding, which can run on normal PC equipment using modern 3D hardware. The only accessory required is a specially designed low cost ColorCodeViewer™.This production was made both as a movie and a Real-time Rendering solution. It was first presented in front of 500 invited VIP customers on a 6 meter wide screen at the Nykredit headquarters. Later on it has been used for a presentation tour throughout Denmark.

Screenshots from the real-time visualization:

The photos below are real photos of the Nykredit headquarters.

The lighting, texturing and animation of the building are made by Thomas Suurland.

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It was later decided that the scene shoud be tried out in real-time since an Art Gallery is an obvious place to move around at a slow personal pace. The game style walk-around behaviour was used and in this way the user would not only experience the scene in real-time, but also get a more distinct feel for the room.

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The modeling, texturing and lighting of the Gallery is made by Thomas Suurland.