Marina House Apartment
Interiors
Marina House is the first Rise.Design project where AI tools replaced the traditional visualisation workflow entirely. Every concept image came out of Midjourney, DALL-E and Stable Diffusion, run in parallel. The clients were prominent lawyers in Bydgoszcz, found through word of mouth, and the brief put this among the studio's higher-end residential commissions. They could not tell the difference.
The apartment occupies approximately 95 square metres in the Jagiellonska 36B development, a riverside building with views across the Brda promenade and park. The developer shell was bare concrete screed, white plaster, exposed wiring: a blank starting point. The building's distinctive round porthole window was kept and made a feature of the finished interior. The balcony's river and park views carry the premium feel of the specification.
The design's defining feature is custom joinery treated as the main architectural system. Custom-built furniture from the Proste Historie workshop accounts for over half the entire project budget, turning every surface from the entrance corridor to the bedroom wardrobe into part of the architecture rather than furniture dropped into a room. The joinery reads the same throughout: walnut-toned wood-effect laminate faces, ribbed drawer fronts, integrated mirror panels, coat hooks and recessed bench seats, repeated from the threshold to the most private rooms.
The material palette around this joinery system is tightly disciplined. Oak parquet runs across all living spaces. Ariostea Fragmenta Bianco Greco sintered stone appears on kitchen worktops and bathroom vanities, its marble-effect surface providing a natural-material warmth without the maintenance of real stone. Cream stone wall tiles line the bathroom, against which dark concrete-effect shower tiles and matte black fixtures provide the contrast. Pure white lacquered upper kitchen fronts balance the walnut lower cabinets.
The visualisation package produced through AI platforms proved indistinguishable from traditionally rendered presentations at client review. The project's success is a direct reason dedicated rendering staff left Rise.Design's payroll by the end of 2023. The design process had changed for good. A full drawing set coordinated the joinery installations with bathroom wall elevations specifying the tile layout, vanity dimensions and custom shower glass.
