Modern office lobby with wood paneling, linear ceiling lights, and employees conversing in casual seating areas near a central display case.

Office · KAFD, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

The Obsidian Forum, Riyadh: 6 renders of a black ceiling

A 1,200 sq m corporate headquarters where nearly every plane overhead is matte black, delivered in 18 days.

Overview

The Brief

Polished dark stone fails by turning into a mirror. Matte black fails the other way: it absorbs nearly everything you throw at it. Underexpose the acoustic rafts and they crush into a hole above the room, no texture and no edges. Overexpose them and they drift to a washed-out grey that reads as cheap paint. Office 3D visualization here means living inside that narrow band.

Software

3ds Max, Corona Renderer

Year

2025

Timeline

18 days

Modern office space with five professionals collaborating around a wooden table, featuring black ceiling with warm lighting, dark accent wall with shelving, plants, and floor-to-ceiling windows.

Modern high-rise dining room with floor-to-ceiling windows, black ceiling fixture with pendant lights, long dark table, and ten people dining together overlooking city skyline.

Modern office lounge with seated employees, orange and green seating, dark wood accents, floor-to-ceiling windows, planted greenery, and contemporary wall art.

Modern office meeting room with wooden shelving, linear ceiling lights, diverse team seated around table, large windows overlooking cityscape, potted plants, and contemporary furniture.

Modern office space with glass-partitioned rooms, wooden paneling, linear ceiling lights, and floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking a city skyline.

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The craft

Fluting is geometry, not a texture

The dark timber panelling is modelled rib by rib rather than faked with a bump map, so light breaks across it the way it will on site. Shaders were calibrated surface by surface, black acoustic rafts with their recessed LED lines, walnut millwork, terrazzo with dark aggregate, cognac leather. Then four layers of light: daylight through full-height glazing, the linear LEDs inside the rafts, shelf lighting in the joinery, brass lamps in the soft seating.

1,200sq m

Total Area

Renders Delivered

Days Turnaround

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