PX Group : cover Berlin's Victory Column with 3D visualisation, photography and CGI

Berlin’s Siegessäule or Victory Column, which is currently being treated to conversation work, has disappeared behind scaffolding and sheeting. The 61 metre tall monument is now entirely encased. The scaffolding around the column has been decorated with a combination of an image of the column and an ‘x-ray’ image, which depicts the experts working on the monument.

The Dorland, Berlin agency commissioned PX with the exciting sheeting project, aimed at providing a complete and realistic interpretation of the column. The complete image of the column and an insight of its fictional interiors was realised in various work stages, using a mixture of photography and CGI. Blueprints and various cross-sections of the column provided essential reference points for the project.

For example, the mosaic (fresco), was photographed using various several shots and pieced together as a panorama shot in the post production.

PX3D used 3D programmes to carefully remodel all aspects of the column and its architecture. They decorated it using textures and photographic material and finally enlarged the images to match the dimensions of the scaffolding.

And last but not least, the resulting ‘outer skin’ was unfolded, rendered, provided with just the right look in post production and the print data prepared for the unusual mega banner. AF-FIX, Potsdam produced the banner.

The Victory Column, built from 1864-1873 according to Heinrich Strack’s designs and set in the grounds of the magnificent Tiergarten, commemorates the Prussian victory in the Danish-Prussian War of 1864.