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Zipnet Takoradi

An interior render of an executive office: a feature wall of red-brown striped veneer broken by thin metal reveal strips and washed by a warm cove of light at the ceiling, with two linear surface fixtures overhead. A dark executive desk holds an open laptop and faces two black mesh guest chairs on a white plinth; a venetian-blinded window sits at the left, the back of a caramel leather sofa fills the near foreground, and a credenza carrying the Zipnet logo closes the right.

A 2011 interior design and visualization set for Zipnet’s office in Takoradi: six rendered views covering an executive office, a boardroom, an open-plan engineers’ floor and a reception, the last shown once in daylight and once after dark.

The studio published the set as ZIPNET TAKORADI INTERIORS — 3D VISUALIZATION on 19 May 2011, crediting the design to Pious and the visualization to R.D+V.S, with the pipeline listed as SketchUp for modelling and texturing, V-Ray for lighting and rendering, and Photoshop for textures and post-processing. The client is named only through its own logo, which appears on the reception desk front, on the executive credenza and in the corner tag of every frame.

Four rooms make up the commission, and the six plates are spread unevenly across them. The executive office is shown twice, once against its veneer feature wall and once from the other end where the same dark desk reads against two blinded windows, a low fitted credenza and a lounge corner of caramel leather chair and ottoman dropped onto a square of black carpet. The boardroom is a single view down a glass-topped table of chrome-framed grey leather chairs, and the engineers’ floor is a wide look along runs of desk under a tiled lift-ceiling.

What holds the office together is a single rich material used sparingly. The red-brown striped veneer, cut by metal reveal strips and lifted off the ceiling with cove light, is the statement; everything else is neutral — pale plastered walls, tan tile floors, grey ceilings, dark desks. Zipnet’s own purple then carries through as the accent, on the dividers between the engineers’ desks, on a framed notice board at the end of that room, and most strongly on the reception floor, where a graphic of purple, oxblood and mustard panels runs under a cluster of cylindrical poufs.

The reception is the one space rendered twice, in day and night lighting: a dark veneer desk before a white brick column carrying two clocks under a cove-lit bulkhead, an arched opening at the left looking through striped frosted glass, and a flat screen set into the plaster. Each frame is signed bottom-left with the studio’s the SEED. V.1.1 / 2010 series mark, www.rdvstudiosgh.com and the Revival Design + VFX Studios logo, and tagged bottom-right with the room name and the Zipnet logo. The post also files the set under Maxwell Render alongside V-Ray. The project is on blogspot.

An interior render of an executive office: a feature wall of red-brown striped veneer broken by thin metal reveal strips and washed by a warm cove of light at the ceiling, with two linear surface fixtures overhead. A dark executive desk holds an open laptop and faces two black mesh guest chairs on a white plinth; a venetian-blinded window sits at the left, the back of a caramel leather sofa fills the near foreground, and a credenza carrying the Zipnet logo closes the right.
A boardroom rendered from one end of a long glass-topped table set with chrome-framed grey leather chairs. The same red-brown striped veneer wraps the left wall while a wide partition of frosted glass, banded with etched horizontal stripes, takes the right and glows with borrowed daylight. Tan tile flooring runs the length of the room and linear fixtures sit in the pale ceiling above the table.
The open-plan engineers’ floor: runs of white and grey desk divided by low purple screens, several monitors lit with a default blue desktop, beneath a grey tiled lift-ceiling set with recessed luminaires. Purple wall panels close the far end and a framed notice board carrying the Zipnet logo hangs at the right.
The executive office from the opposite end: a dark veneer L-shaped desk with an open laptop and a black task chair in the foreground, two windows dressed in venetian blinds along the left wall and a low fitted credenza beneath the far one. A lounge corner of a caramel leather chair and ottoman sits on a square of black carpet beside a slim floor lamp, a yellow abstract panel hangs on the right wall, and a dark wood trough crosses the ceiling over tan tile flooring.
The reception in daylight: a dark veneer desk fronted by a round Zipnet logo disc stands before a white brick column carrying two wall clocks, lit from a cove in the bulkhead above. A flat screen is set into the plaster to the right and an arched opening at the left looks through a partition of horizontally striped frosted glass. The floor carries a graphic of purple, oxblood and mustard panels under a cluster of cylindrical poufs, with a chrome task chair at a side desk.
The same reception view after dark, the daylight behind the striped glass gone and the room lit instead by the cove above the desk and scattered downlights. The white brick column reads warmer, the floor graphic deepens to violet and oxblood, and the rest of the space falls into shadow.