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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.

Arrival, the porte cochere01 · Arrival, the porte cochere

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.

Arrival, the lobby02 · Arrival, the lobby

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.

Moving through, the indoor pool03 · Moving through, the indoor pool
Moving through, the colonnades garden bar04 · Moving through, the colonnades garden bar
Moving through, the sea terrace05 · Moving through, the sea terrace

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.

Detail, the bronze06 · Detail, the bronze
Detail, the library07 · Detail, the library

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

Architecture and interiors
Gregory Tuck Architecture
Visualization
Oaki Studio
Location
Sochi, Black Sea coast
Year
2024