Train Concourse [1]

A subway concourse from 2019(?) that I procrastinated rendering for literal years because of how large the model was, and the difficulties of lighting its interior. Last month (April '22) I finally sucked it up and made several renders, deleting sections of the model to get some light in the interior, then imported the file into Mecabricks.com, and spent some money rendering the model with lights in their built-in-renderer. This above is one of those lit renders.

 

The concourse was inspired by the Soviet metro systems in Moscow and St. Petersburg. During Russia's imperial period the country's nobles lived in lavish palaces, while the commoners largely lived in tenements in the cities or cottages out in the countryside. When the 1917 Revolution happened and the various Imperial and noble palaces were seized by the Reds, the soldiers saw the interiors of what must've seemed like fairytale palaces to them, and were amazed and appalled that such luxury should be enjoyed by such a small number of people. When the first metro lines were being built in the 1920s in Moscow and St. Petersburg, the Soviets in power decided that the various stations would be decorated in palatial style, reasoning that Art belonged to the People, and everyone should be able to experience such luxurious architecture. Built between the 1920s and 1940s, each subway station is unique, and all of them are stunning to look at. I was inspired by these metro systems, and tried to create a concourse in that style. The subway stations mostly share a semicircular arch dome shape, so I modeled that, furthering an arched ceiling technique I'd come up with previously. The train station should only be a single story tall, and thus is egregiously oversized, but whatever.

 

Modeled in LDD, rendered on Mecabricks.com

Done