Hospitality & Nightlife / Interior Design & 3D Visualization — 2012 · Private Client

Hot Gossip

Dance floor of illuminated photo tiles laid out in a grid, leading to a raised DJ booth glowing pink at the far end, with columns of disc lights framing the room.

A nightlife interior carried from spatial design all the way into full visualization: a lounge walled in backlit discs, a lit bar counter, a billiards hall and a dance floor paved with illuminated photo tiles.

Hot Gossip was an interior design and 3D visualization commission, documented by the studio in June 2012 as HOT GOSSIP - INTERIOR DESIGN + 3D VISUALIZATION. The renders carry the studio’s own NEW.LIFE.2.o series line dated March 2012, which is the working date of the model.

The scheme is built around light rather than finish. Circular disc panels run floor to ceiling in the lounges and frame the dance floor; the bar and billiards hall are top-lit by slatted yellow coffers with pendant clusters; the washrooms trade the pink for a deep magenta vanity run and small-scale black mosaic. Ten visualization plates cover the lounge, bar, billiards and the washrooms.

Interior design and 3D visualization were produced by Caleb Sackey with the studio. Interior design: Caleb Sackey, Jude Abbey, Jude Nyoagbe. Modelling: Jude Abbey, Jude Nyoagbe, Joshua Doodo, Nii Okpoti. Texturing: Jude Abbey, Jude Nyoagbe. Lighting and rendering: Jude Nyoagbe. Branding: Kofi Tetteh. Post-processing: Jude Nyoagbe and Edem Tamakloe.

Lounge interior: a curved sectional in pale upholstery faces a full wall of backlit pink circular discs, with a low table on a dark rug and a short flight of steps to a raised area at the far end.

Billiards hall: a blue-clothed pool table in the foreground, yellow cove lighting overhead, a glass-block partition at the left and a wall of pink disc lights at the far end.

Bar counter picked out in warm yellow strip light beneath a slatted luminous ceiling, a brass column at the corner, mirrored back bar with pink disc panels and a row of teal stools.

Washroom vanity: three white vessel basins sit along a glossy deep-purple counter under a mirror wall, with small dark mosaic tiles wrapping the side wall and a cove of light across the ceiling.

The same washroom from the other end: a long magenta vanity run with basins and mirrors, black mosaic tiling behind it and recessed slots lighting the ceiling.

Booth seating lit from a wall of glowing pink discs, with a band of blue cove light tracing the ceiling recess above an L-shaped sofa and a low table.

The lit dance floor seen from the side: quilted pale-pink wall panels, a band of disc lights and the glowing floor tiles running towards a bar at the end of the room.

Low banquettes set on a dark rug in front of a full-height wall of glowing pink discs that wraps the corner of the lounge.

The bar and billiards hall from the opposite end: a radial ceiling of yellow-lit slats opening above the room, pendant clusters, and pink disc columns at either side.