3D visualisation of the Park Medyków building in Katowice at dusk, with a lit ground floor, lawn and playground

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3D Visualisation in Katowice: Renders, Animation and Rotating Floor Plans for Park Medyków

  • Project: Park Medyków, Katowice (Poland)
  • Client: S.3 Real Estate
  • Scope: exterior renders, 3D animation, rotating 3D floor plans

Park Medyków is a development of 100 apartments at 34 Medyków Street in Katowice, Poland. For S.3 Real Estate, which handles its marketing, we created exterior renders, a 3D animation for the project website and rotating floor plans of three apartments.

Better Renders for a Project Already on the Market

When we started working together in December 2023, Park Medyków was already being promoted with earlier visuals. The client wanted a clear step up in quality, but no revolution. The new views had to stay close to the old ones, because the advertising so far had been built on them. They also asked for evening scenes with people.

We received the building design and the site plan, which was still going to change. Corrections in a finished scene take far more work than building it on current data from the start, so full production began once we had the new plan and the 3D model of the building. Until then we only prepared individual elements of the surroundings.

More Sun and Greenery, Because That Is What the Project Is About

We sent the first proposals in February 2024 and refined them with the client over several rounds. The most important comment was about mood. The renders lacked sunshine, and Park Medyków is meant to be associated with greenery and outdoor life. So we removed the haze from the whole scene, brightened the daytime views and added a green roof.

Rendering of the Park Medyków building from the street, with trees, a bus stop and a yellow number 12 bus
Rendering of the Park Medyków facade with balconies, a car park and a lawn on a sunny day
Daytime views: from the street with the bus stop and from the car park.

People also choose an apartment by what surrounds the building, so the setting had to match the site plan. The renders show the playground, tall trees and the bus stop, and the bus in the street view carries the number the client asked for.

The evening views show a building that is already lived in: lights in the windows, a lit ground floor with shops and a terrace where someone is having dinner. Buyers can see what coming home after work will look like. We set the facade lighting, interior lighting and street lamps separately until the building looked natural.

Rendering of the Park Medyków ground floor with glazed retail units and balconies with greenery
Rendering of a ground floor apartment terrace at Park Medyków in the evening, with a sofa, a table and people
The ground floor with retail units and an apartment terrace in the evening.

The client also wanted to use the building in their own graphics, so they asked for a version without trees and cars that would be easy to cut out. We suggested going straight to renders of the building alone, on a transparent background.

Render of the Park Medyków building alone in the evening, without its surroundings
A render of the building alone, ready for the client’s graphics.

3D Animation for the Project Website and Social Media

The film was meant to play as soon as someone opened the project’s home page, and then be cut into shorter clips for social media. That is why we put it together from short shots that also work on their own: a view from the street, the ground floor retail units, a terrace and the green roof, and finally a flight over the building. The whole film runs for just under a minute.

After the first version the client asked for more energy. In place of a calm shot of the footpath we suggested an aerial view that shows the building among the greenery, and we changed the transitions between shots.

3D animation of the Park Medyków development in Katowice.

Rotating 3D Floor Plans: Seeing an Apartment from Every Side

In early 2025 we came back to this project. For three apartments we created 3D floor plans in the form of a web application. Buyers rotate the apartment with a mouse or a finger and zoom in on any part. We furnished the apartments in a calm, modern style, each slightly differently so they would not look the same.

We build rotating plans from transparent WebP frames. Unlike JPG, such a plan has no white background, so the client placed it on their own website background and can cut it out for their graphics. A frame weighs about 70 KB instead of almost 4 MB as PNG, and the application loads lighter images first and larger ones only when you click to zoom. After the first version we raised the frame count from 40 to 60 for a smoother rotation and made the wood on the floors and furniture consistent. We also delivered the plans as MP4 films.

Rotating 3D floor plan of a Park Medyków apartment with a living room, two bedrooms and a balcony
Rotating 3D floor plan of a Park Medyków apartment with a living room, kitchen, bedroom and terrace
Rotating 3D floor plan of a long Park Medyków apartment with balconies and a walk-in wardrobe
Three apartments, in frames from the rotating 3D floor plans.

You can rotate the plans yourself: apartment 1, apartment 2 and apartment 3.

What We Delivered for Park Medyków

  • 5 exterior views, day and evening
  • 3 renders of the building alone, without surroundings
  • a 3D animation, just under a minute
  • 3 rotating 3D floor plans of apartments, also as MP4 films

We also work with S.3 Real Estate on other developments.

3D Visualisation for Your Development

Our studio is based in Żywiec, Poland, and we do not need a meeting to get started. The building design and the site plan are enough. If you are planning a residential project, see how we approach architectural visualisation, 3D animation and apartment rendering, or send us your project for a quote.

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