Contemporary Stone Villa

Project Overview

4 renders. Birmingham, UK. A luxury home project called Contemporary Stone Villa that the residential architect needed visualized before ground broke. That was the starting point.

Contemporary two-story stone-clad residence, flat and angled rooflines, pool side view, metal pergola balcony, lush hedged gardens.

The Challenge

One of the trickier aspects was environmental context. A building doesn’t exist in a vacuum, and placing this luxury home design convincingly into its Birmingham, UK surroundings required careful attention to vegetation, street furniture, lighting conditions, and neighbouring structures.

Balancing aesthetics with accuracy is always the tension in this work. The residential architect wanted images that looked aspirational — but the architects needed every proportion, setback, and material call to be precisely as drawn.

The design was still evolving when we started. We had to build a model flexible enough to absorb changes mid-stream without derailing the production schedule.

Our Approach

We leaned on physically-based rendering throughout. Every material — glass, stone, metal, timber — was defined by real-world optical properties. That’s what makes the difference between a render that looks ‘nice’ and one that looks true.

We ran the first round of test renders at reduced resolution to get quick feedback on composition, materials, and overall mood. This let us catch issues early when changes were cheap, not late when they weren’t.

The modelling phase was methodical. We built the geometry from the architectural plans, cross-referencing elevations and sections to catch anything that might read differently in three dimensions than it does on paper.

Material selection was hands-on. We sourced textures from manufacturer libraries and matched them against the specification documents. Where specs were ambiguous, we sent samples to the residential architect for sign-off before rendering.

Camera positions were planned, not improvised. We mapped out eye-level angles based on the project’s strongest design moments, then refined framing through a series of grey-shaded test renders before committing to final production.

The Result

Delivery took 2-3 weeks from kick-off to final files. The 4-image set now powers the project’s online presence, sales centre displays, and social media content.

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