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Workplace / Architectural Visualization & BIM — 2022 · National Petroleum Authority

NPA

Wide panorama along the NPA desk bank: linear LED pendants overhead, acoustic rafts and ceiling cassettes above, the laser-cut eagle panel and the blue brand wall at the far end, and full-height glazing to the right.

BIM modelling and architectural visualization for the National Petroleum Authority’s open-plan office — five plates of a white, black and grey floorplate carried by one blue brand wall, built around an interior scheme by Newland Interiors.

The split is a clean one: Newland Interiors designed the workplace, and RDVS took the scheme into a BIM model and rendered it. The client identifies itself inside the frames rather than needing a caption — the full-height blue panel by the entrance door carries the NPA mark above the Authority’s own welcome statement, which records that it was established by Act of Parliament (NPA Act 2005, ACT 691) to regulate the downstream petroleum industry in Ghana.

Workstations run in shared benches of white tops on white pedestal units, divided by low black fabric acoustic screens and paired with black swivel chairs. Desktops are the only clutter: iMacs on the near bays, laptops opened on the far ones. Underfoot is a large-format pale grey tile that keeps the joints reading as straight lines down the length of the room.

The ceiling does most of the technical work and is left visible: long runs of suspended linear LED laid out along the desk lines, with the air-handling cassettes, diffusers and grey acoustic rafts set into the flat white plane above them. Full-height glazing to one side and a black-framed meeting room with a felt-lined door close off the other.

Colour is rationed to three places — the blue brand panel, the blue and yellow cushions on the grey sofa, and the black-and-white laser-cut eagle screen hung above it, which borrows the Authority’s own emblem and scales it up to the wall.

The five plates cover the room from both ends and in two aspect ratios: a wide panorama down the desk bank, two three-quarter views of the sofa corner taken from either side of it, a view back along the meeting-room glazing, and a portrait crop of the brand wall and door.

All five are renders produced from the BIM model rather than photographs of the fitted-out office.

Three-quarter view down the open-plan office: white bench desks with black acoustic screens and pedestal units, black swivel chairs, a black-and-white laser-cut eagle panel on the far wall and a grey sofa with blue and yellow cushions beneath it.
The same corner from the opposite side, framed by a palm leaf in the foreground, with the blue NPA brand panel visible on the wall to the right.
Wide panorama along the desk bank: linear LED pendants overhead, acoustic rafts and ceiling cassettes above, the laser-cut panel and the brand wall at the far end, and full-height glazing to the right.
The meeting end of the floorplate: a black-framed glazed meeting room with a felt-lined door and a grey felt pinboard, and a row of desks with black leather chairs on the near side.
Portrait crop of the brand wall: the blue NPA panel carrying the Authority's welcome statement, behind a bank of white desks with black shell chairs and two open laptops.