Bahai 3D
3D Narrative - 2026
A 3D storytelling study exploring how sacred architecture can be translated into a digital space while preserving stillness and proportion.
The project uses light, scale, slow motion, and restrained framing to communicate calm, symbolism, and architectural presence.
Role: 3D Direction, Narrative Design, Lighting Look Development
Stack: Vite, Three.js, GLTF, Camera Choreography, Lighting, Shader Materials
The design started as drawings on tracing paper.
The proposal grew from my client's hand-drawn sketches: elevations in pencil and colored crayon, with figures for scale. Translating these into exact geometry, while keeping what made them good, was the whole project.
A radial plan, drawn by hand.
The floor plan carries the whole logic of the building: central prayer hall, hallway, terrace, and pathway arranged in rings. The radial structure of this drawing became the radial symmetry of the model.
The digital scene preserves calm and proportion.
The visual language stays intentionally restrained so geometry, light, and camera placement can carry the emotional weight of the experience.
Color and glass become part of the narrative system.
Interior lighting studies focus on atmosphere and symbolism, using stained-glass color as a quiet visual anchor rather than a decorative flourish.
The prayer hall from the floor.
A second interior study looks up from inside the central hall, checking how the ribs, glass, and daylight hold together at the scale a visitor would actually experience.
Slow, deliberate camera movement.
Slow transitions, deliberate framing, and generous scale make the experience feel guided while leaving enough space for the architecture to remain the focus.