The images in this project attempt to explore the aesthetics of carbon fibre: specifically, notions of light and materiality. The images were part of a wider exploration into the qualities of carbon fibre as a building material.

The works of Eladio Dieste explicitly engage with themes of solid and light, void and materiality. Drawing in further themes of construction technology relevant to other elements of the investigation made Dieste's works ideally suited as a foundation for exploring the aesthetics of  carbon fibre as a building material.

The images are a combination of 3Ds Max model and rendering, and photoshop compositing. Computer models of selected works by Dieste - Cristo Obero Church in Atlantida, Uruguay and Iglesia De San Pedro, San Pedro respectively - were rendered with varying sources and strengths of light on carbon fibre materials that varied in density and weave, before being composited and photo-montaged to produce the images below.