Multi-residential · case study
Timber-Clad Townhouse Development
A landscaped townhouse scheme captured from the shared pathway to show scale, cladding and planting.
- Renders like these, from
- A$445 per image
- Turnaround
- 5–7 business days from approved brief
- Revisions
- Up to 4 rounds included
- You send
- Plans, elevations, sections and a finishes schedule
From the studio archive, described from the render itself.
What the render shows
A townhouse scheme of timber-clad blocks along a planted shared pathway, shown from eye level to convey scale, cladding and balcony outlook.
How it was built
A low camera on the pathway keeps the blocks stepping into the distance and puts the planting in the foreground. Cladding boards were modelled individually so the timber tone varies naturally rather than repeating.
Deliverable
One hero exterior render at hoarding and brochure-cover resolution.
What this render has to do
A townhouse scheme sells on its streetscape: not one dwelling but the way a row of them reads together, with space between. This image is a hero exterior at eye level along a gravel pathway. Blocks of vertical timber boarding and pale render step back into the distance, with balconies cantilevered from the first floor and louvred screens at ground level. Nothing in it is a plan. It communicates scale, material and mood in a single glance, which is the job a cover image or hoarding has to do for townhouse developments before a buyer reads anything else. The pathway lets the camera sit where a resident would walk, placing the viewer inside the scheme rather than above it.
Materials, light and camera
Three materials carry the image. Vertical timber boards in warm tones clad the lower and middle volumes, white render finishes the upper boxes, and black metal frames, balustrades and downpipes keep the edges crisp. Louvred timber panels sit beneath the balconies, throwing stripes of shadow on the walls, and timber soffits show above the ground-floor doors. The planting is layered on purpose: ornamental grasses and shrubs at the base, slim trees rising between the blocks, and a light gravel path with low bollard lights leading the eye through. Sunlight comes from above and to one side, which makes balcony edges and louvres read clearly without darkening the render.
What to watch for in this type of brief
Timber is the hardest material to get right in a render. A single repeated board texture produces an obviously digital wall, whereas modelling boards individually, so tone and grain vary, makes the timber believable. Check how the timber is expected to weather, because a photograph of new cladding may not match what is expected after a few years. Balconies are another sensitive item: depth, balustrade type and furniture all signal who the homes are for. Landscape maturity matters too, since overgrown planting hides the architecture and sparse planting looks unfinished. Our architectural visualisation work weighs these choices against the drawings.
Where the images go
A single hero exterior is a flexible asset. At hoarding scale it becomes a site fence graphic, at brochure resolution a cover, and cropped, it can fill a web banner or a social post. For off-the-plan campaigns it is often the first image a buyer sees, so plan the crop before rendering begins. Our guide for property developers sets out how a hero image fits a launch plan, and our 3D rendering cost guide explains why exteriors start from A$445. A hero view can grow into a full set of 3D exterior renders with a rear view, interiors and an aerial, and the same approach suits smaller infill schemes such as duplexes and dual occupancies.
Questions
Multi-residential: questions clients ask
Modelling boards individually lets tone, grain and joint lines vary the way real cladding does, which avoids the repeating pattern a single tiled texture creates. It adds modelling time, but it is the difference between convincing timber and a flat, artificial wall.
Tell us the final print size and viewing distance. Large hoardings are seen from far away, so they need less pixel density than a brochure, but we still render large enough to crop. We can deliver higher resolutions on request without rebuilding the scene.
Hero exteriors begin at A$445 each. Quotes are fixed and arrive inside a business day, and the first draft follows in 5 to 7 business days. Four revision rounds are covered, and we ask for half up front and half once the draft is approved.
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Send us your plans, elevations or even a sketch. Exterior renders from A$445, interiors from A$345, delivered in 5–7 business days.