Influences

I will be taking major influence from Albert Speers Interior work, especially the Reich chancellery, as I feel this would be a great opportunity to look at how he was able to exploit the power of a country using architecture. I will be taking influence from his idea of scale, I will want the interior rooms to be quite large with square column supports built into the walls. I will also be taking influence from the way he has designed the glass ceiling, have square glass panels with clean beveled edges around the outset of the ceiling.

I’m also interested the way Speer uses light in and out of his building to show off the architectural features, I could use these technique to show of my main focus point within my environment.

I also like the beveled insets in the walls, I think this works really well with the composition of objects/props within the room, and I think it gives the room a nice clean orderly effect. I will use this concept to create an inset around the fireplace instead of having multiple insets around the room. I think this will make viewer’s focus more on the fireplace making it more visually interesting. As for the fireplace I really like the way Speer has used the marble wall material, specifically how it merges into the fireplace making it appear as part of the buildings architecture. I also taking influence from how the room is split into two areas; the study and a small lounge. I will add my own twist on this and have my diorama be split into two different rooms, separated by a large marble wall. I will be taking influence from the types of props around the room, all furniture look very luxurious, made with expensive materials.

One major influence I had for creating a war-room came from the movie ‘Inglorious Basterds’ there were a two scene in particular which were shot inside of Hitler’s head quarts, inspired by Albert Speers architecture, this provided me an opportunity to see another person’s interpretation of a Nazi war-room. They have used a very similar architecture style to Speers, having a large scaled room, with minimum decorations to give it that severe deco look. One major feature I will be taking influence from is the huge war-map that represents the domination of Germany, I will create a similar looking map replacing the swastika and eagles with the basic German iron cross.

 I also multiple props in this scene I think the sheer size of , the table with very few chairs surrounding it really exploits how the Nazis used scale to show supremacy, large objects show dominance and superiority. I will be taking influence from this, having a large wooden table in front of the war-room, I could use mahogany as a luxury material for the wood and have a table cloth that extends over the furthest ends of the table, made from a fine cotton material. I also like how the lamps are used as the main source of light, I will use the same technique in my diorama placing the lamps close the map to make it more visible. One last feature I like again similar to Albert Speers Reich chancellery is the fireplace, being very large and having the effect of it being a part of the architecture.

Another scene from this movie was set in Hitler’s office, I think this room resembles many features from the original Reich chancellery, such as the room being split up into two parts, work/ business on one side of the room and comfy pleasure in another.  However it does have some unique elements such as the banners, I will be incorporating this into my scene but instead have the banners beside the war map from the top image. I will also be taking influenced from the lower part of the table, that it style of legs I’m going for, I like how the wooden panels are flat on the ground, rather than having individual legs supports.

Another influence for the War-room was from the TV series ‘Game of Thrones’, in various episodes throughout the series there are scene set on a war-planning table. This is the type of layout I want to have on my war-table, this was the real motivation for focusing on an interior war-room, I think having those chess-like strategy pieces spread along multiple battle maps would look very distinctive, I think by combining this with WW2 theme will create something very unique. 

One video game I will be taking influence from is Wolfenstien, there game is set in a world where Germany is winning WW2, this game is a great reference to use as it gives me an opportunity to see what the structure of building the 3D artists and created, if they have been historically accurate then they would be influenced by albert speer architecture.