After almost 20 years as a design professional, Pamela Rodriguez decided to focus her work entirely on creating architectural renderings using computer software. She provides particular attention to two unique characteristics of location that give the viewer a spatial experience of an environment and a sense of place. These are lighting and the cultural significance of content. Natural light, whether indoors or out, can make a place and its finishes look and feel different depending on the location, season of the year and time of the day.

In that writers should write from what they know, she believes that renderings tell a story through visualization. Only through experience can that story be told in a manner that is a true representation of a specific location and the cultural significance found there. With just a click of a mouse we can be connected with anyone anywhere. She recognizes the beautifully executed work of rendering artists around the world, but their work lacks the detail and experiential sense of homes in the US that can realistically only be expressed by someone who lives here. Though she has spent many years developing her technical expertise as an interior designer specializing in residential remodeling construction, her passion has always been for creating art. For this reason, Pam counts herself among the highly proficient rendering technicians that are fine artists first.

While in college earning her degree in Interior Architecture, she interned with an interior design firm where she sketched and painted renderings by hand. Concurrently, she freelanced as an architectural illustrator on a contract basis. After graduation she worked at designing both commercial and residential spaces –most recently as a freelance kitchen and bath designer. Decidedly, she prefers the scale and intimate aspect of working with residential clients and spaces. Architectural illustration and rendering has always played an important role in her professional design career as well as her hobbies outside of work.

At the beginning of 2012, Pam designed and drafted the plans for her own home remodel. In the year prior to that, she created many beautiful renderings of her ideas in the process of deciding what the design would be. Through this exploration, she created various scenarios from building additions and changing different parts of the house. This process was a great way to try alternate designs on for size.

 

Rendering for new kitchen.

Photo of completed kitchen.

Photo of completed kitchen.