Allan ClaytonM.Arch (Professional)
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A monumental dark tower formed from layered circular cages, with a lit shrine and figure suspended inside.

Computational architectural series

Architectural Worlds

A selected series of imagined environments developed through architectural modelling, atmospheric rendering and selective AI-assisted post-production.

Sekhmet Tower — modelled in Rhino and rendered in Blender.

Project record

Date
2024–2025
Context
Independent architectural study series
Role
Architectural concept, 3D modelling, rendering and image development
Outputs
  • Architectural 3D models
  • Rendered spatial studies
  • Final image series
Tools
  • Rhino
  • Grasshopper
  • Blender
  • Adobe Photoshop

Project

These works use architecture as a world-building medium. They are imagined environments rather than proposals for a single building, but each begins with spatial relationships, structure, scale and sequence developed as architecture.

I build the geometry in Rhino, using Grasshopper for selected systems and repetitions, then compose, light and render the scenes in Blender. Modelling and image-making work together: the architecture establishes the world, while material, atmosphere and viewpoint determine how it is encountered.

AI-assisted post-production was used selectively rather than across the whole series, and is identified in the relevant image caption. The architectural geometry and primary spatial composition remain grounded in the modelled work.

A tall symmetrical tower of pale blue scaffolding rising through mist, carrying classical statues, a potted tree and checkered banding on stacked platforms, lit from below.
A scaffold tower carrying classical fragments, lit from the base through mist.

Process

  1. Spatial concept and world-building
  2. Rhino modelling and parametric development
  3. Blender composition and rendering
  4. Selective image post-production
A brightly coloured fantastical tower of columns, trusses, screens and looping structures against black.
Vertical Assemblage — a dense world assembled from classical, industrial and digital forms.
A pastel classical tower of pink and lilac masonry and green marble columns against black, carrying illuminated pixel-art screens and looping rollercoaster track.
A classical tower carrying pixel screens and looping track.
A spherical Gothic pavilion suspended against a field of stars, containing seated figures beneath a patterned vaulted ceiling.
Orb — a self-contained architectural interior treated as a world in miniature.
A dark interior lined in perforated metal, with orange desk lamps along a black shelf and a teal tiled kitchen beyond, where translucent pale violet creature forms rise into the room.
A perforated metal interior entered by translucent forms.
A luminous stair rising toward an isolated arched canopy within a deep blue architectural space.
Rossi Folly — a study in procession, threshold and impossible scale.
Repeating arcaded towers surrounding a sunlit sky in which a face appears through clouds.
AI Iso Tower — Rhino modelling and Blender rendering with AI-assisted post-production.