The Residential Collection · Sochi, Black Sea coast · 2024
The Point
Thirteen interiors for a resort on the Black Sea coast, another designer's intent kept exact across every image.

Setup
A resort on the Black Sea, its interiors designed in Brooklyn by Gregory Tuck Architecture. Thirteen final images: the porte cochere, the colonnades bar, the rooms between. The job was to make the design visible before construction, exactly as drawn.

Tension
Interior programs at resort scale fail quietly. A dozen images by many hands stop reading as one place: the palette drifts, the light contradicts itself, and the world falls apart one frame at a time.



Approach
We worked room by room with the architect, view by view, through his own markups. One lighting language across the set. Where a piece did not exist in any library, we modeled it: the chandeliers, the loungers, the furniture that carries the design. The design, exactly as intended.


Outcome
Years after delivery, Gregory Tuck recommended oaki, unprompted, to a developer planning a new resort. An architect staking his own name on the studio, years later, is the outcome.
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Credits
- Gregory Tuck Architecture
- Oaki Studio
- Sochi, Black Sea coast
- 2024


