Cliff Museum, Trondheim
A small contemporary art museum cantilevered over the North Sea, in collaboration with Reigersberg Architecten. Twelve final frames at twilight, for the project's competition submission.
// 45.5152° N
// 122.6784° W
// Portland — Worldwide
v.04 — Spring 2026
14 ongoing commissions
3 awards, this cycle
we render unbuilt buildings.
Plenum is an independent visualization studio for architects, developers, and museums. We make photographs of spaces that do not yet exist — and treat the unbuilt with the same patience the built deserves.
01 — Studio
A drawing is a promise. A render is a kept one — photographic, dated, repeatable. The same building, shown the same way, on the same day, year after year. We make the second kind.
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Three phases. No surprises.
Every commission, regardless of scale, moves through the same three phases. A small house and a 200-meter tower share the same calendar — only the rendering time differs.
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Survey & brief
We read the drawings the way a contractor would. We visit the site if it exists. We agree on the eight to twelve frames that will make or break the project, and write them down.
- Drawing review
- Site walk
- Frame schedule
- Light brief
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Build the model
The geometry is rebuilt from the architect's files at the precision required for close-up. Materials are sourced, scanned, or written from physical samples sent by post. The first light study follows.
- Geometry rebuild
- Material library
- Light study v01
- Sign-off framing
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Render & finish
Two rounds of revisions are included. Final frames are delivered at print resolution with a colour-managed PDF and the source files. An animation is delivered as ProRes 4444 and an H.265 master.
- 2 revision rounds
- Print + screen masters
- Animation deliverables
- Source file handover
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Selected commissions.
A small slice of recent work. Most of what we do never appears here — clients ask, and we agree.
Library of Solitude
A research library for a private institution, board-form concrete throughout, with twenty-eight reading carrels arranged around a central court. Eight interior frames and a slow walking animation.
Hidden House, Sonora
A private residence carved into a desert hillside in northern Mexico, two horizontal cantilevered volumes resolving in an infinity pool. Six exterior frames and a brand of stills for the architect's monograph.
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What we make.
Still frames
Print-resolution photographic renders for competition books, monographs, and exhibition prints. Always colour-managed. Always layered.
Walking animations
Slow cinematic moves through the unbuilt. ProRes masters at 4K and 6K. Optional ambient audio brief if you want the room to breathe.
Light studies
Sun-path simulations for any latitude on any day, validated against site-recorded data when available, used early to inform openings.
Material research
Custom shaders written from physical samples sent by post. We keep a library of 1,400 of them. We've never reused one.
VR walkthroughs
For client review and gallery installation. Quest 3 + Vision Pro builds. Not a sales tool — a design tool the architect can stand inside.
Editorial support
Frame curation, caption writing, and book layout for the architect's monograph or competition submission, in collaboration with your editor.
05 — By the numbers
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Commissions completed since 2018
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People in the studio. Not growing.
By choice.
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Stock assets used in any frame, ever.
Verified.
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Countries we have shipped frames into.
06 — Selected clients
07 — Start
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