Aerial rendering of Lio’s coastline and jetty, with tropical development and mountains in the Philippines

Lio Coastal Resort Renderings: From Masterplan to Public Spaces

A coastal destination in the Philippines, shown from the scale of the masterplan to the experience of arriving, walking along the beach and reaching the jetty. We developed the visualisation from the client’s models, drawings and planning references.

Detail of a Lio resort pavilion among palms

Detail of Lio’s beach and boardwalk with tropical planting

Making the Lio Coastal Plan Read as a Place to Visit

A resort development in the Philippines needed marketing images that explained both the wider territory and its public spaces. The brief combined aerial views of Cove 1 and Cove 2, semi-aerial views of Phase 5 and street-level views of arrival, shopping, visitor and waterfront spaces.

The client supplied architectural models, drawings and planning references. We converted and refined the geometry, adjusted scale and roads, developed cameras and built out the coastal environment.

Keeping Lio’s Buildings Legible Within a Tropical Landscape

Buildings and roof forms had to remain readable among palms and dense greenery. Aerial views needed to connect the beach, roads, jetty, airport and neighbourhoods; ground-level views needed to convey a relaxed seaside setting. We reviewed the island silhouette, planting scale, building placement and architectural details against the client’s materials.

The Lio Coastal Resort Image Set

The consolidated set moves between the scale of the development and the spaces visitors experience on foot. The images below retain their full compositions.

Lio resort in the Philippines: arrival building and drop-off — 01Arrival building and drop-off

Lio resort in the Philippines: jetty at sunset — 02Jetty at sunset

Lio resort in the Philippines: pavilion among palms — 03Pavilion among palms

Lio resort in the Philippines: visitor centre — 04Visitor centre

Lio resort in the Philippines: beach and boardwalk — 05Beach and boardwalk

Lio resort in the Philippines: coastal development masterplan — 06Coastal development masterplan

Lio resort in the Philippines: coastline and jetty from above — 07Coastline and jetty from above

Lio resort in the Philippines: pedestrian space — 08Pedestrian space

Lio resort in the Philippines: phase 5 neighbourhood — 09Phase 5 neighbourhood

Lio resort in the Philippines: airport and coastline — 10Airport and coastline

Cover of the guide on the pre-sales image set for a residential development

Free guide: off-plan buyers decide on 8 images, developers pay for 22

The frames above are the kind an off-plan buyer decides from, and there are fewer of them than most orders assume. In our priced composite, a developer paid $22,600 for the original image set, a film and panoramas, plus two missing campaign images ordered later. The guide gives you the eight-image real estate rendering set, staged from launch to construction, and the one-page brief to send instead.

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Images in the consolidated March handover package, spanning arrival spaces, the waterfront and the wider development.
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Bird’s-eye, semi-aerial and street-level compositions connecting the overall plan with the visitor experience.

A coastal masterplan becomes easier to understand when the same image set connects the whole territory with the places visitors will use: arrival spaces, a shaded walk, the beach and the jetty.

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What did the Lio resort rendering brief include?

The brief combined two bird’s-eye views of Cove 1 and Cove 2, two semi-aerial views of Phase 5 and six street-level perspectives. The views covered arrival and transport spaces, shops, a visitor centre, the boardwalk and jetty, connecting the overall development with the experience of visiting it.

Did you create the Lio architecture and models from scratch?

The client supplied architectural models, drawings and planning references. Our work included converting and optimising that geometry, correcting details and scale, developing cameras, and building out the roads, landscaping and surrounding environment. The visualisation developed the supplied design into a coordinated image set across several viewing scales.

How did you keep buildings visible among tropical planting?

We balanced planting density with the visibility of the architecture, checking roof forms, building placement and the scale of palms against the client’s references. The aerial compositions also needed a recognisable coastline and island silhouette, while ground-level views used furniture, people and vegetation to convey the seaside setting.

Which tools were used for the Lio visualisation?

The early production record includes 3ds Max for imported models. The later scene was assembled in SketchUp and rendered in D5 Render, with Photoshop used for post-production. The team refined the geometry, cameras, materials, lighting and environment across review rounds rather than treating the supplied models as a finished scene.

How did the aerial and street-level views serve different purposes?

The aerial views explained the arrangement of the development, its coastline and the relationship between buildings, transport infrastructure and landscape. Street-level compositions showed the visitor experience at arrival spaces, the beach, the boardwalk and the jetty. Together they connected the planning scale with the character of individual public spaces.

What were the Lio images intended to support?

The images were commissioned for marketing communication about the resort development. A specific request concerned a Cove 2 aerial for upcoming PR materials, and the team prepared a consolidated handover package in March 2026. The set includes both wider coastal views and individual public spaces.

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