Rottweil Cottage

Project Overview

The residential architect came to us mid-design with Rottweil Cottage, a single-family home project in Palm Beach, FL. They needed 3 images that could work for client presentations now and marketing materials later.

MISPLACED: A small Scandinavian-style single-family cottage with white render, dark pitched roof, large glazed gable, and minimalist landscaping — not multi-family.

The Challenge

One of the trickier aspects was environmental context. A building doesn’t exist in a vacuum, and placing this single-family home design convincingly into its Palm Beach, FL 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.

Our Approach

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.

Camera positions were planned, not improvised. We mapped out aerial, corner-view 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 rendering pipeline was set up to handle 3 outputs efficiently. Shared lighting rigs, consistent material libraries, and a standardised colour pipeline meant every image maintained the same visual standard.

The Result

Production closed within 2-3 weeks. The hero image is now the signature visual for Rottweil Cottage, and the supporting gallery views have been deployed across the residential architect’s marketing channels.

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