Winter Break
Shaped by restraint, atmosphere, and memory.
Short Description
A quiet schoolyard in winter.
Snow has blanketed the building; edges blur, time slows.
We observe a still interval – shaped by season and action.
Laughter fades. Traces remain.
Concept & Design by Hirtz Architektur | AI-assisted digital visualization
Prompt Logic
Final image results from a controlled multi-pass workflow using seed-locked framing, geometric constraints, and atmosphere-focused iterations.
Two finetuned LLMs were used for variation control and descriptive refinement, feeding into a final compositional pass in Flux and Gemini.
Generated at 8K resolution and finalized at 4K for optimized detail and composition.
Process
The base image is modeled in Rhino 3D and blurred intentionally to simulate latent noise – serving as a structural and atmospheric anchor for the first AI pass.
Initial generation is performed using SDXL, guided by a reference image created in Midjourney and a manually curated prompt.
The output is then upscaled and enhanced via Flux (dev.1), followed by subtle color correction in Photoshop.
The final winter scene emerges through a custom SDXL-IPA-based workflow, further refined with the Flux Kontext model to stabilize geometry and deepen atmosphere.
The image was developed in the context of a competition brief for a new primary school in Basel.
The architectural design was already resolved – the challenge became how to revisit the project atmospherically, not formally.
Using fixed geometry and controlled generative passes, the process focused on how presence, season, and silence could be rendered without spectacle.
