Office Campus Nigeria

This conceptual perspective was created for a first meeting to secure an office Campus in Lagos Nigeria. The Dual building size blocks of 30 x 40 m2 with a vertical circulation in the central core, Revit, allowed me to create playful poetry between concrete masonry walls, transparent curtain wall systems, and shading devices (brae Solaire). 

An optimised render method

The Artful render is a fantastic way to quickly produce on the fly imagery to blow your clients' socks off in any meeting. There are many ways to render, but this way is by far the quickest and most potent method that I know of, particularly lends itself to looking like a hand sketch drawing. Most architects need a production method that helps them see excellent versions of their design within minutes. 

Design & Rendering Towers

Urban Towers that are nested in the Hub of Telaviv the images produced using Revit, SketchUp and photoshop with Vray.  Delivered three days from conception, Vray allowed for reflections in the glass and a softer technique to drop shadows.

The Hybrid Design Process

1. Three Design & Presentation Software tools
2. Overlapping common, design & presentation software strengths.
3. Hybrid Design Architect can combine the strengths of three design & presentation software tools.

Black and white renderings of Retail Shopping

Proposed Main shopping mall entrance Lagos Nigeria. The geometry of the 3d triangle became a generator shape for the entrances and the skylights.  It is essential in retail design to set up a language that can translate throughout each scheme, blending, form & functionality with the retail shopping mentality. These images were created in black and white without any texture mapping to leave room for interpretation from the client, without being too dictatorial about materials and colour. 

Quick Urban Proposals

A Holistic Ministry, urban proposal including, hotels, retail centres, church stadium - fitting 80 000 people, civic centres, student housing, pastor housing, Video Production Village, upmarket villas & holistic healing hospital & retail shopping. The scheme was put together in a few days, using Revit's massing tool, Sketchup and photoshop. Final post-production in photoshop allowed me to print the final imagery on a full-colour laser printer to show the client.

Standard Plan Printer Black & White

Proposal for Meridian Mall, my favourite part of the day after constructing my final layouts is printing my images out on A0 in black and white using the black and white A0 plan printer on regular paper. When modelling in Revit & Sketchup, an immense amount of detail created using the curtain wall and massing systems that finally express themselves in the final rendered images. These final collages when they come out of the A0 laser printer make the day all worth it. A Monotone print at A0 for a dollar or two when presented to the client flat on the smooth boardroom table, mimics fineliner and charcoal. A typical black and white plan printer can do wonders.

Tel Aviv - Residential Proposal

The beachfront proposal in Tel Aviv is of refurbished block building form the '50s. The green landscape intervention in front of the buildings unites the urban landscape, which was once parking area, has become a social green public space that people can celebrate, filled with trees, and paved walkways. This image looks fantastic when printed on A3 tabloid-size paper. The final images were rendered in  SketchUp using Vray and printed on A3 / Tabloid size paper.

Theme Park Rendering

This image was an intricate theme park designed for children around safety standards in Israel. The final design & illustration needed to be softened and annotated in photoshop. Design constructed in Revit exported to SketchUp and final post-production in and annotating in Photoshop