Workplace & Office / Interior Design & Architectural Visualization — 2017 · Private Client

Pine Square

Wider open-plan render: a round ottoman in the middle of the floor, workstations with computers, a glass-walled meeting room with planting behind it and framed pictures on the left wall.

Interior design and 3D visualization for Pine Square, a 2017 office scheme in Accra: dusk and daytime exterior renders, open-plan and executive interiors, and a run of mood boards covering finishes, reception, landscape and rooftop.

Pine Square offers commercial entities and business executives open-plan space, executive offices and convenient parking. RDVS. Design worked with the design team to produce images that sell the project, which meant covering the whole arc a leasing prospect asks about: what the block looks like from the road, how the interior feels, and how the scheme was thought through.

The building is a low white composition of stacked boxes, screened by a perimeter wall of perforated blocks and framed by teak surrounds at the first-floor glazing. Inside, a lobby cut by curved green graphics feeds open-plan desks with light oak floors, mesh task chairs and glass-partitioned meeting rooms, while the roof terrace and the parking court carry the working day outdoors.

The boards set the palette before the renders confirm it: concrete, teak, glass, stone cladding and pebbles against white, black and warm brown, with green coming from planting rather than paint. Light is deliberately mixed, dusk exteriors with warm wall uplighting and window glow, then bright even daylight inside under recessed downlights and linear ceiling fixtures.

Plate 2 is the title card, PINE SQUARE MOOD BOARD JUNE 2017, and plates 3 to 7 are the boards themselves: 00 mood and colour scheme, 01 open office, 09 reception, 10 landscape and 11 rooftop, each with materials, colours and notes columns. The other ten plates are the visualizations, with the dusk exterior leading the sequence, so the pack runs boards first as intent and renders after as the proof.

The project was published as PINE SQUARE — 3D VISUALIZATION — RDVS. DESIGN; the full set is on Behance.

Dusk exterior render: a low white office block behind a perimeter wall of perforated blocks, warm uplight raking across the wall and a planted roof garden silhouetted against a deep blue evening sky.

Mood board title card on white: PINE SQUARE in stacked blue lettering above MOOD BOARD in gold and the date JUNE2017, with a small grey tab at the top left of the page.

Mood board 00, MOOD+COLOUR SCHEME: reference photographs of an open office, a mural wall and dusk exteriors above columns headed MATERIALS+TEXTURES, COLOURS and NOTES, listing concrete, teak, glass and stone cladding.

Mood board 01, OPEN OFFICE 1 + OPEN OFFICE 2: a mesh task chair, a white desk with teak drawers, shelving, a ceiling grid and a planter of white pebbles, with teak, glass, stone and leather listed as materials.

Mood board 09, RECEPTION: a black mesh chair, blue lounge chairs around a small table, white planters and a stacked-stone wall, with notes asking for a space welcoming enough to give a sense of orientation.

Mood board 10, LANDSCAPE: paving and asphalt samples, gravel strips, agave, a banana plant and a stepped lawn with a bench, captioned as a threshold for workers and a break from the hard nature of work.

Mood board 11, ROOF TOP: rooftop lounge seating on a timber deck, loungers, planters of cactus and tulips and a city view, with notes describing the terrace as an extension of the landscape.

Daytime exterior render from the road: white cubic volumes with a teak-framed perforated screen panel, a breeze-block boundary wall and a gravel forecourt under a pale sky.

The same exterior from a second angle, showing the entrance gap in the boundary wall with a dark metal gate, the teak screen and the stepped white walls against an overcast sky.

Exterior render of the parking court: several cars parked in front of the white two-storey volume, a stone-clad wall at the left, a palm and low planting softening the asphalt.

Lobby interior render: white walls cut by curved green graphic bands that sweep up onto the ceiling, a low planter of grass, a pale floor and a black task chair in the distance.

Reception interior render: glazed partitions, the same green ceiling swoops, a stacked-stone feature wall, mustard lounge chairs and a small side table on a pale polished floor.

Open-plan office render: two desks with desktop computers and mesh chairs, teak drawer units, roller blinds at the windows and a large portrait canvas on the far wall.

Second open-plan view: desks divided by low white planters of grass, dark doors along the back wall, a potted tree at the right and framed art above the workstations.

Executive office render seen through a glass partition: a timber desk with two chairs, a full wall of book-lined shelving, a pale plank floor and a task chair at the near edge.