Fan that attaches to the tower. Im creating all of the elements on separate scenes, then importing onto the main Garage scene.

I tweaked the geometry using vertices to create a quirky, wonky effect.

Started to follow my picture, but I decided that the pipe around the tower was a bit awkward so I adjusted it and turned it anti clockwise. I also made the fan attach directly to the tower.

I needed to figure out a way of joining the tower onto the rest of the garage. I decided to make it look like the tower was coming through a part of the garage roof, like it was awkwardly mashed against it. I figured that Rotwang isn't much of an architect, and this was his way of adding an extension.

Garage texture for the main walls.

Further Development of Design

I made the extension more obvious, making it look more like a tower. It is taller than the house and piping extends out the top, - this is Rowang's way of drawing power from Metropolis.

I also added more detailing, The odd experiment on top of the roof will be larger, giving it more of a crazy feel. I added a fan like contraption  to the tower, because this is where he stores some of his more important, and also dangerous experiments which need to be kept at the right conditions.

More patches have been added on the walls, giving it more of a run down feel.

Garage

I wanted to create a Frankenstein like garage. It is old and rickety.
He uses it to store his odd experiments. Holes have been blown in to the roof which he has patched up with whatever he could find. It started to collapse so he braced it with a metal pole.

He extended the garage because he was running out of room.

I kept it looking similar to Rotwangs house, but added a lot more personality to it. His garage is his hobby, an invention in itself, which he has added to. Odd experiments protrude from it - perhaps to absorb energy or send radio frequencies.

Rotwang's Lab

There is a lot of gadgets and experiments in Rotwangs Lab which is going to inspire my design for the garage. 

Rotwang's Lab. Really nice details. His lab inspired the frankenstein franchise.
-Curved shelves, glass beakers, spirally lights, geometric shape out of wall.

Interesting spiralled fluorescent Lights.

The star in the background is pictured throughout this scene, on Rotwangs door and random walls in his house.

Visual precedents

This film was made in 1927, however it was based in the distant future. Throughout the film 'futuristic' props and buildings are displayed. A lot of these designs maintain a simple geometric silhouette. 

E.g:

Circular shape silhouette, with detailing within.

E.g:

In this scene, note the geometric shape of the bed - (the hexagon like headboard).
Also note the beside lights.

I want to ensure that although I am creating a garage maintained by a mad scientist, that the building itself still looks to be a part of the movie as a whole. Thus I will keep to Lang's style, looking closely at the geometric details and structure as a whole

1927 Metropolis directed by Fritz Lang

I have chose the scene in Metropolis where we see the crazy inventor - Rotwang's house for the first time.

The scene begins with a black screen and the words:

"In the middle of Metropolis there was a strange house, overlooked by the centuries"

The scene then cuts to a forgotten, run down house, amongst towering buildings and metal supporting structures.

Note: The setting is quite dark and it looks like mist or fog surounds the strange house. The house itself seems plain but the structure itself however is quite unique, with wonky walls and a curvy roof, its almost like Rotwangs personality is expressed in the architecture.


I want to add an extension to this scene and create Rotwang's garage. To fit in with the style of this film I plan to recreate it in black and white, and focus more on the detailing, lighting and texturing of the model. I aim to bring through more of Rotwangs personality. He is a mad inventor and so I want to use this and create something which looks structurally awkward or even impossible, i.e.. something that could only have been created by someone crazy, someone like Rotwang.

Look at this scene, I will create Rotwang's garage behind his house. I don't want to create all this building surrounding Rotwang, So I think I'll work on a way to focus just on his house and the garage, perhaps by playing on the use of fog - as seen in this scene. I think  will recreate the wall and some of the metal pole things just to help establish the scene more.