About the project
The following renders are part of a larger endeavor to virtually recreate the downtown of Mount Morris, Michigan. The goals of the project are explicit: to present the city in a new light, allowing residents to witness its subtle and often overlooked character. Mount Morris is similar to many small towns in America’s Midwest in that the beauty of the city is hidden in modernity, shrouded by the exhaust of fleeing automobiles. Virtual Mount Morris brings the city’s pace to a crawl- slow enough to capture the snapshots of form and function which photographs miss and everyday life ignores.
The hope was that people who have lived in Mount Morris their entire life will see the project and say, for perhaps the first time, “Isn’t my city beautiful”.
Note: some of the final SketchUp renders were combined with Photoshop to produce lighting effects which were intended to bring an added sense of life to the still images.
Image Gallery
Analyses
Analyses for this project will be forthcoming