An Apartment in Paris: From Working Model to Finished Image
How Munich based studio bloque used INTER\STITIAL to turn their working models of a Paris apartment renovation project into immersive imagery, and what it changed in the way they design.
~2 hrs
From model to finished image
9
Rooms & views visualised
1 afternoon
For the whole apartment set
“For us, Interstitial is the ideal tool for turning an early-stage 3D model into a compelling spatial experience within minutes. Especially when working with natural materials and interior concepts, it does something essential: it allows ideas to be experienced long before they are built.”
A full renovation of a family apartment in the heart of Paris. Bloque was asked to rethink the plan around a single idea — a warm, tactile home where a brushed-steel kitchen and herringbone oak floors meet the light of a classic Parisian façade. Before a single wall moved, the studio needed to show that idea: to the client, to the trades, and to themselves.
Here is that idea, realised. Hover the image below and use the compare button in the top-right corner to slide back to Bloque’s working model — and see exactly what Interstitial changed. Every image on this page works the same way.
The open kitchen and dining space, looking toward the entrance hall.
How Bloque works
Bloque is a collective of architects that looks for the hidden potential in a place and follows a project from first sketch to final detail. The studio works in physical models and CAD in parallel, testing materials, light and proportion long before anything is built. Images are not decoration at the end of that process — they are part of thinking, a way to check whether a decision feels right.
We don’t design forms. We create atmospheres.
Working with Interstitial
The studio’s models already carried everything that mattered — the geometry, the openings, the built-in furniture. What they lacked was atmosphere. Interstitial took those working views and returned photographic images that kept the design exactly as drawn, while adding the light, materials and depth the team had in their heads. Instead of commissioning a separate visualisation studio and waiting days for each round, Bloque could iterate on a look in minutes and bring finished images into the very next client meeting.
Inside the studio’s Interstitial canvas — working models, references and finished images laid out side by side. Click to enlarge.
The main bathroom: glass block, mosaic tile and a sunken tub.
Two material variations of the same bathroom — slide to compare warm oak and beige tile against green marble and grey mosaic.
Inside the images
A model shows what a room is. An image has to show what it will feel like. Here are two views where that gap mattered most.
Looking across the living space to the kitchen. The model fixed the proportions; the image had to prove that warm oak and cool steel could share a room.
The bathroom. Tile size, grout tone and the fall of water — decisions that only read once the surfaces catch the light.
The result
The full set of apartment views was produced in a single afternoon, in-house, and without pulling anyone off the design work. The client signed off on the material palette from the images alone — and the studio kept a workflow they now reach for on every project where an idea has to be seen before it can be believed.