Architectural visualisation of Casa Dos Aguas, a residence designed by Colombian studio Cinco Sólidos for artist J Balvin in Rionegro, Antioquia. A project that marked a milestone in contemporary Colombian architecture with significant international impact.

Inspired by a trip to Japan, the house was conceived to be inhabited as a sanctuary. The synthesis of Japanese and Scandinavian architecture created a refuge of silence and wellbeing — featuring the Shou Sugi Ban charred wood technique, Shoji sliding panels and a bonsai collection in dialogue with the lush Antioquian landscape.

The challenge of this visualisation was to preserve the original intent: material honesty and natural light as the absolute protagonist. Every frame was designed so that light — filtered through wood, reflected in water, diffused through interiors — would narrate the story of the space before anything else.

A residential interior project conceived as an exercise in maximum formal refinement. Sakura Residence explores the warmth of natural wood across its full extent — walls, ceilings, shelving and floors — creating an atmosphere that evokes the serenity of a Japanese country house translated into a contemporary urban setting.

Light is the primary material. Spherical washi paper pendants filter a warm, diffuse luminosity that erases harsh shadows and wraps every corner in an almost tactile warmth. The chromatic palette — beige, toasted wood, natural linen — generates a space that breathes tranquillity.

The technical challenge was faithfully reproducing the herringbone parquet texture, the translucency of the pendant lights and the depth of the open shelving. A project where photorealism serves emotion.

Terra Studio was born as an exploration of earth tones applied to the contemporary residential interior. The palette — terracotta on the feature wall, beige upholstery, camel leather on the iconic Barcelona chair and white on the central sofa — builds an environment that is both sophisticated and deeply human.

Natural light enters from the left, grazes the polished resin floor and generates the reflections that bring the image to life. Calibrating the right amount of reflection was one of the greatest technical challenges: enough to add depth without diverting attention from the furniture.

The main view framing was chosen so that the Barcelona chair acts as a visual vanishing point toward the sofa and window. A composition where every element has an exact place and purpose.

Onyx House is a project that explores darkness as architectural language. The oxidised microcement wall — the absolute protagonist — acts as a canvas that absorbs and redistributes the warm light from concealed LED strips, generating a dense, cinematic, almost theatrical atmosphere.

The timber ceiling — warm, natural, organic — balances the coldness of the microcement and anchors the space to a human scale. KAWS figures scattered throughout the room humanise an interior that might otherwise feel excessively austere.

This project was an exercise in artificial light control within dark interiors: ensuring every source — LED strips, wall lights, lateral natural light — had a different temperature and intensity, creating a light hierarchy that guides the eye through the space.

Manhattan Apex is the most ambitious project in the Axis Studio portfolio. A luxury penthouse where architecture and art coexist with views of the Manhattan skyline — the Empire State Building visible at dusk, the city lights softened by the translucent curtain.

The most challenging element was the white marble helical staircase ascending through the vertical space. A sculptural piece that demanded extremely precise modelling — every tread, every curve, every junction with the glass balustrade — and lighting that would highlight its volume without overexposing it.

The palette — marble grey, warm beige, dark timber, touches of brown leather — builds an unmistakably New York interior: elegant without ostentation, cosmopolitan without coldness. The blue figure in the corner breaks the seriousness of the whole and gives it character.