VISUALISATION AND DIGITAL ATMOSPHERE REPRESENTATIONS

Works produced through visualisation, rendering and digital atmospheric processes with a particular focus on composition, lighting, atmosphere, materiality and narrative. The Visualisation Award is supported by Trimble SketchUp

Mierceholts New National Timber Reserve - Close up by Jack Oaten

Winner of Visualisation Award 2025

Kingston University, UK

This project explores the potential of an industrial forest stretching from the Forest of Dean to the Forest of Bowland. Currently, the UK produces 11 million tonnes of timber per year. Only 2.8 million of that is used in construction.

The project proposes a new national forest bordering Wales will produce a yield of 12.7 million tonnes annually. Through sustainable forestry practices, if materials can be used more efficiently, this number could double. The sawmill will become a piece of rural infrastructure, processing timber grown in this new forest using digital methods to extract more than a traditional sawmill could. The sawmills will be able to produce enough timber for construction each year to replace a 1/4 of all uk materials.

Summer Still Life by Yi Du

Highly Commended for Visualisation Award 2025

United Kingdom

This images represents floating residences designed for the community of "sea nomads", who treat water as their homeland. These dwellings form self-sufficient ecosystems, shaped by water and climate. Life unfolds by the water’s edge, where architecture and nature dissolve into one—fluid, inseparable, and ever-connected.

Rotoria – New Life by Yifeng Zhang

Highly Commended for Visualisation Award 2025

China

After nuclear devastation, the surface is lost. Humanity retreats underground, forging Rotoria—a subterranean city shaped like a rotary engine. But the architecture of survival is not neutral. At the illuminated core, the Intermedian control light and order. At the margins, the Marginalis cling to wall-mounted dwellings in darkness. Movement is constrained, perceptions dictated, life shaped by a system that imprisons even as it sustains. To comply is to endure. To resist is to confront the unknown. Has survival built a new beginning, or a prison with no exits?

Morning. Way to School by Serofim Shilnikov

Commended for Visualisation Award 2025

Denmark

PAN Treetop Cabins by Luca Petruccelli

Commended for Visualisation Award 2025

Italy

To experience an immersive natural wonder, why not completely merge with it? PAN Treetop Cabins, designed by architect Espen Surnevik , is a tourist accommodation in the heart of the Norwegian forest, that doesn’t change the surrounding nature, but integrates with it, almost hiding itself, offering a rare wilderness experience. The result? Two stunning structures adapted to the unique topography of the site.

Dystopia of the Omnicidal Landscape by Thomas Biscaro

Special Mention for Visualisation Award 2025

Université Laval, Canada

Near the China–Mongolia border, the city of Baotou silently reshapes our reality by extracting nearly half of the world’s rare earth metals—key to the devices that embody our belief in inevitable progress. Ten kilometers away, a toxic lake swells with radioactive waste. Nothing lives there. This project explores speculative architecture as a catalyst for awareness, staging a doomed decontamination plant at its center. The worker returns daily, repeating futile gestures as the lake rises. Architecture becomes a witness—an anti-memorial—making visible what we strive to forget: our denial, our inertia, our collapse.

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