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SDIS NORD | COLDEFY

This project was a proposal by Coldefy to an architectural competition and featured a building that would serve as the regional headquarters for the SDIS (Departmental Fire and Rescue Service). It married the attributes of a practical office building and an impressive industrial complex.

From afar, the architecture shines through with a facade consisting of different materials and shapes that even reference a nearby river—if you ask our artists, this project is best seen from an aerial view. Getting closer however reveals all the nuances and small touches that the architects dreamed up and our team realized through beautiful architectural visualizations: signature white brick walls with mashrabiya elements, béton sablé (sandblasted concrete) pathways, and lush gardens shaped by a landscape architect.

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Contrary to popular belief, not everything looks better in bright daylight. Sometimes immense beauty can be found in a foggy meadow, a rainy cityscape, or a brutalist block house that blends into a uniformly grey sky—our job as an architectural rendering company is to have a deep understanding of the possible utilizations of different moods.

In the case of the SDIS project, we felt that by using lighting conditions of an overcast day and an entourage that evokes the colder seasons, we can really let the architecture shine through. Since the architects were brave enough to use white as a base color for their building, we would be brave enough to forget sunny settings for a bit and showcase this remarkable building in a setting that evokes more emotion than any clear sky could.

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IN COLLABORATION WITH COLDEFY
CREATED BY RÓBERT ANDRÉKÓ, NELIA CORREIA, MARIIA LAZARYK & DÁNIEL OLÁH 

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