You are planning a new home, a substantial extension or a full redesign, and you want to understand the design properly before committing to construction. Most people find it difficult to judge scale, light and materials from plans and elevations alone.
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You need photorealistic CGI to support a planning application, a funding conversation, a public consultation, or the marketing of a scheme before it is built.
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You have completed the design and need someone to translate it into high-quality imagery. We work from your information and to your intent as the designing architect.
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The most expensive decisions on a residential project are made early, on paper. Clients regularly tell us they cannot picture the finished house from a plan, and yet they are being asked to sign off on massing, glazing, roof form and a material palette that will define the building for decades.
A 3D visualisation makes those decisions concrete. You can compare stone against brick, see how morning light falls into the kitchen, understand how new work reads against an existing house, and test whether the design does what you hoped before anyone orders a single material. Changing a model costs a fraction of changing a building.
Photorealistic images are not required by a planning authority, but they change how a proposal is read. A planning officer, a parish council or a neighbour looking at elevations will interpret the scheme very differently to someone looking at an accurate image of the building in its actual setting, at the right scale, with the surrounding landscape and neighbouring buildings included.
That matters most on applications judged largely on visual impact: new homes in the countryside, work in the Green Belt, conversions of agricultural buildings, and additions to historic properties. We prepare visuals with the application in mind, using accurate context and honest materials rather than flattering ones, because an image that oversells a scheme creates a problem later.
If you need the application itself prepared and submitted as well as the imagery, that is something we do.
Exterior
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The standard commission. Agreed views of the proposed building in its setting.
Interior
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Key internal spaces, showing layout, light, finishes and the relationship between rooms.
Aerial
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Useful where the relationship to the site, to neighbouring buildings or to the wider landscape is the point being made.
Dusk
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Lighting design, glazing and the way the building reads after dark.
Materials
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The same view rendered with alternative palettes, so you can compare properly rather than imagine.
Animation
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Moving imagery for presentations, consultations and marketing.
Virtual reality
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For schemes that benefit from being walked through at full scale.
Recent work
Set within open countryside just outside the Peak District, this luxury glamping retreat near Kirk Langley offers a calm, considered escape for guests seeking comfort, privacy, and a strong connection to the landscape. The development brings together a small collection of high-quality cabins designed to sit lightly within their rural setting, providing a refined base from which to explore the surrounding countryside and the Peak District beyond.
Visualisation is Stage 2.1 of our design process. If we are designing your project, the model already exists and the imagery is a natural next step rather than a separate exercise.
You have drawings, whether from us or from someone else, and you need images. We work from what you have, to an agreed package and a fixed proposal.
We produce imagery for architects and design practices under their direction and to their brief. Your relationship with your client remains yours.
It is the production of realistic images of a building that has not been built yet. A three-dimensional model of the proposed design is created from the architectural drawings, then materials, lighting, landscaping and the surrounding context are applied and the agreed views are rendered as high-resolution images. It is also referred to as architectural CGI or 3D architectural rendering.
It depends on the number of views, the level of detail, the resolution, whether interiors are included, and how much usable information you already have. A single exterior view of a straightforward domestic project sits at the lower end. A package combining exteriors, interiors, alternative material options and animation sits considerably higher. We price every commission individually and confirm the figure in writing before any work starts, so there are no variable costs once you have accepted the proposal.
A typical package of three exterior images takes around two to three weeks from the point we have complete information, which includes the draft review stage. Interiors, animation and complex schemes take longer. If you are working to a planning submission date or a presentation date, tell us at the brief stage and we will confirm whether it is achievable.
Plans, elevations and sections at minimum, along with a material schedule or reference images, and some information about the site and its surroundings. The more complete the information, the more accurate the result. Where information is missing we will tell you what is needed rather than guessing.
No. If you have one we will work from it, which usually reduces the cost. If you do not, we build the model from your drawings as part of the commission.
The number of included revisions is stated in your proposal. Views are agreed with you before detailed rendering begins, and drafts are issued for review before the final images are produced, so revisions are made at the stage where they are quick rather than after everything has been finished.
Yes, and on schemes judged on visual impact they often make a material difference to how a proposal is received. We produce visuals with the application in mind, using accurate context and honest materials. We can also prepare and submit the application itself.
Yes. We regularly work from designs produced by other architects and design practices, to their brief and under their direction.
Yes. Interiors, aerial and contextual views, dusk scenes, alternative material options, animations, walkthroughs and virtual reality content can all be included, either in the original package or added later.
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