Research into Oriental Architecture

When first looking into the oriental style builds I first decided to look at the types of colours that are normally used within the culture to help my my lighthouse have similarities towards other oriental buildings. To so I took images of the buildings from Google images and put them into Photoshop. By doing this I was able to use the eyedropper tool to take the colour from the images of the buildings and create a palette of the colours. (Shown Below)

 As you can see the colours are often colours that can be found in autumn, for example the array of reds within the palette. Having this palette enables me to take into texturing my building and also help to give the colour lighting to give the right tone of the culture.

I then went to look into the actual architecture of the oriental style I used tourism site as I am unable to experience them first hand but having the pictures from other peoples experience of the buildings I felt was the most effective primary research. One of the best site I found was trip advisor.

Click here to see one of the locations I found.

As you can see by this picture their is the use of the colours I found in numerous buildings. By using trip advisor I found that the roofing of the buildings are one of the key factors to the buildings. The buildings seem to be also made of woods which helps me when it comes to texturing the buildings. The supports of the building seem to be clearly visible and is part of the architecture, this is something I will incorporate into my work, along side this is also the windows, they seem to be very small and a have small pattern in them this is also something I can bring to my piece.