U15 La Série Photographique by Tiago Marques

U15 La Série Photographique by Tiago Marques is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award d'Argent in Photographie Competition Category.

ArgentPhotographie· 2020

U15 La Série Photographique

by Tiago Marques

A' Design Award d'Argent Winner in Photographie Category

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The Design

About U15 La Série Photographique

Le projet des artistes profite des caractéristiques du bâtiment U15 pour créer une association avec des éléments naturels présents dans l'imaginaire collectif. Profitant de la structure du bâtiment et de certaines parties de celui-ci, comme ses couleurs et ses formes, ils essaient d'évoquer des endroits plus spécifiques comme la forêt de pierre chinoise, la tour américaine du diable, en tant qu'icônes naturelles génériques comme des chutes d'eau, des rivières et des pentes rocheuses. Pour accorder une interprétation différente à chaque image, les artistes explorent le bâtiment à travers une approche minimaliste, en utilisant différents angles et perspectives.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award d'Argent

U15 La Série Photographique est lauréat de l'A' Design Award d'Argent, une reconnaissance énormément prestigieuse décernée à des designs haut de gamme, superbes et impressionnants. Les lauréats Argent sont des œuvres tout à fait brillantes et extrêmement créatives qui illustrent l'expertise, le talent et la perspicacité remarquables de leurs concepteurs. U15 La Série Photographique est censé être une œuvre merveilleuse, une vitrine de savoir-faire, remarquablement professionnelle et profondément innovante. Ce design lauréat de l'A' Design Award d'Argent est une invention très notable et admirée, qui sert l'art, la science, le design et la technologie et en repousse les limites. U15 La Série Photographique est une création très enviée qui éveille les désirs, apporte des sentiments positifs et suscite émerveillement et étonnement.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The project aims to evoke, from the artists' architecture photographs, elements present in nature. That photographs exploit the U15's aseptic shapes in a sharp relationship with landscape stereotypes present in our subconscious, like waterfalls, mountains, waves, and more.

U15 is a photographic series that links two contrasting realities, generating a new vision of the building. Every single frame conveys two different interpretations.
Dimensions & Packaging: To achieve the highest dynamic range possible, they opted to work in RAW format. Thanks to that, during the post-production, Tiago and Tania were able to handle shadows, highlights, and sporadic reflections, keeping a well-balanced contrast, without a more invasive file manipulation.
Tags: architecture, architectural photography, photography, cityscape, building, milano, italy, milan, design, futuristic, minimal, minimalism, metal, material, nature, natural, environment, ambient, waterfall, rocky slope, waves, mountains, cortex, relationship, trees, U15
Production Technology: In this photographic series, they had intentionally overexposed the sky, to focus the attention entirely on the structure and its features.

The artists preferred to work during the afternoon, with the highest luminosity, to perform in freehand take advantage of more dynamic frames, keeping a minimalist approach.
Design Challenge: The major challenge was to show the building from several angles. The pictures should have suggested multiple interpretations. To did it, the artists took several shots, trying to forecast the final result.

It was a goal hard to reach because they had to keep focused on the collective imaginary of nature during all the creative processes.
Research: To find the right photographs for the project, Tiago and Tania had created a lot of calls to actions in the social networks. The massive reaction of people helped to define that selection. From the 13.459 interactions, 64% of them came from a target with an age of mid 18 and 35 years old. The results were mostly in accord with the artists' proposals. They also noticed that most of the suggestions to change the comparison came from accounts under 30.
Inspiration: The building U15, subject of Tiago and Tania's photographic series, is located in a part of the new district of north Milanofiori, in Milano. Designed by Cino Zucchi Architetti, the structure is in a continuing relationship with the design of the green.

The artists inspired by the masterplan idea, take advantage of the shapes, colors, and materials of U15, to develop a photographic concept which wants to combine the building design with traditional nature landscapes.
Project Duration: The project started on the 14th of April 2018 in Milanofiori. It requested several months of work, including a first selection, associations with natural landscapes, online pools, post-production, the second round of online pools, final selection, and release on our website.
Operation Flow: Working on U15, the artists obtained a lot of different shots, which caused a long selection process.

The hardest part was to find photographs that could best fit the idea. They made several pools online to individuate the most intuitive association.

To realize this photographic series, they plan to use the lambda chromogenic print technology, keeping a faithful representation of the U15's metallic tones and utilize the same building's materials to frame the prints.
Team Members: Tiago Marques
Tania De Pascalis
Image Credits: Main image: Photographer, Tania De Pascalis, Waterfall 2018
Image #1: Photographer, Tiago Marques, Mountains 2018
Image #2: Photographer, Tania De Pascalis, Cortex 2018
Image #3: Photographer, Tiago Marques, Waves 2018
Image #4: Photographer, Tiago Marques, Rocky slope 2018