3D Visualization — 2016 · Commissioned Work

Weldment Panels

Night view of the clad wall under a coffered concrete deck: dark perforated panels scattered with small multicolour chips run the length of the frame, lit by a row of ground uplighters, with yellow flexible bollards on the paved forecourt at left and a car's red light trails at right.

Renders of a graffiti-proof wall panel system, made in 2016 as part of a client’s presentation material.

The panels are the subject, not the buildings around them. Each view places the same cladding on a piece of urban concrete — a curved road overpass, a retaining wall beside a carriageway, a rail cutting, a bridge pier and the undercroft of a deck — so the product could be judged in the settings it was being sold into.

The facing itself reads as a dark perforated or mesh sheet carrying a scatter of small colour chips, dense enough to break up any mark and to keep a tagged wall from reading as a tag. Night plates push that effect hardest: with ground uplighters raking across the surface the panel glitters, and the colour that survives is the panel’s own rather than anything sprayed on it.

Context is deliberately generic — a stock high-rise skyline, ordinary traffic, plain concrete — so nothing competes with the cladding. Daylight plates show the run of the wall and how it terminates at a corner or a parapet; the dusk and night plates show how it behaves once the structure it sits inside is lit.

Eight views were published as WELDMENT PANELS — 3D VISUALIZATION; the set is on Behance.

A curving concrete road overpass whose retaining wall is clad end to end in the dark speckled panel; a black car passes beneath the deck and a cluster of glass towers rises behind the parapet.

Daylight street view of the same structure: a white SUV waits at a junction beside a grass verge and paved walk, the clad retaining wall running away to the right under the overpass, with a red portal frame at the left edge of the frame.

Head-on view down a transit cutting: tracks run straight into a short undercroft between white railings, a yellow car on the adjacent roadway at left and red portal frames marking the approach.

Wide elevated view across the road cutting toward the underpass, tree belts framing both sides and the high-rise context model filling the horizon behind.

Night view of the clad wall beneath a coffered concrete deck: the perforated panels scattered with colour chips run the length of the frame, lit by ground uplighters, with yellow flexible bollards on the forecourt and a car's red light trails at right.

Traffic passing under a bridge whose piers and abutments carry the cladding; a dark pickup crosses the foreground and no-entry signs stand on the central reservation.

Dusk view along a highway toward an overpass clad in the panel, cars running in both directions under a warm, low sky.

Night underpass with the clad walls glowing under the deck lights, long red and white light trails from traffic drawing the eye through the structure.