Nadia Cornelissen Villa

Project Overview

This single-family home project in Chicago, IL arrived with ambition. Nadia Cornelissen Villa needed 2 photorealistic exterior views covering everything from hero marketing shots to detailed design-review angles.

MISPLACED: Modern single-family villa with stacked stone cladding, flat roof, carport with luxury cars, and mailbox showing number 39 — not multi-family.

The Challenge

The timeline was compressed. The real estate developer had a launch date that wasn’t moving, which meant our production schedule had zero slack for extended revision cycles.

At 2 deliverables, there’s a real risk of redundancy — views that look too similar or don’t add new information. We planned the camera positions deliberately so every image earned its place in the set.

Our Approach

Camera positions were planned, not improvised. We mapped out rear-elevation, front-elevation 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.

We started where we always start: with the drawings. Every wall thickness, every material notation, every site boundary got translated into the 3D model before we touched a single texture or light.

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.

The Result

The full set of 2 renders was delivered within 1-2 weeks. Hero images went out first for early marketing, with the complete gallery following shortly after for the project website and brochure.

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