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E-Line Vision3D & VFX ArtistEline Kouijzer

Climate Ceilings for Inteco

Product visualisation · 3ds Max and V-Ray

Close-up render of the pipes and copper couplings of PareauLux HeartFelt, Inteco's climate ceiling. 3D visualisation by Eline Kouijzer, E-Line Vision, made in 3ds Max and V-Ray

PareauLux is Inteco’s lamella climate ceiling. In 3ds Max and V-Ray, I created product visualisations that show how a ceiling like this is put together: the panel, the water pipes, and the lamellas underneath. The images were made for Inteco’s website and to promote the climate ceilings.

Client · Inteco
My role · building the 3D model from Inteco’s SketchUp models and drawings, materials, lighting, rendering and post-production
Purpose · images for Inteco’s website and promotion
Software · 3ds Max, V-Ray and Photoshop
Output · 16 product visualisations

Exploded view

In the exploded view, you can see the ceiling layer by layer. At the top is the panel with its suspension hooks. Below that is the perforated plate with the water pipes, followed by the carrier rails and, at the bottom, the lamellas. One image tells the whole story of the climate ceiling.

Three versions

PareauLux comes in three versions: 30BD with aluminium lamellas, Wooden Grille with wooden slats, and HeartFelt with felt lamellas. I created the aluminium, wood, and felt materials separately, so you can tell the three versions apart at a glance.

Product render of Inteco's PareauLux Wooden Grille, a climate ceiling with wooden slats, made in 3ds Max and V-Ray
Wood · Wooden Grille

How a climate ceiling works

A climate ceiling cools and heats with water. Cold or warm water flows through the pipes above the lamellas. The ceiling absorbs or releases heat, mainly through radiation. That keeps the temperature even throughout the room, without draughts or noise. Up close, you can see the pipes, the copper couplings, and the perforated plate they rest on.

From above and from below

From above, you can see the technical parts: the panel, the carrier rails, and the pipes. From below, you see what will later be visible in an office or a school: only the clean lamellas.

How I built it

In the 3ds Max viewport you can see how the ceiling is built up: the lamellas, the carrier rails, the panels and the pipes, layer by layer.

Build-up of Inteco's climate ceiling in 3ds Max, as a clay model with panels, pipes and lamellas
The whole ceiling as a clay model in 3ds Max

The biggest challenge

Getting the materials right was quite a job. The aluminium, the wood, and the felt each had to look photorealistic and tactile. To get there, I started with materials from my own library and refined them until they looked convincing and realistic. Inteco responded really quickly to the work-in-progress versions.

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