What is Trove, and what did NoTriangle create for it?

Trove is a building of luxury car condominiums at 13880 Wireless Way in Richmond, BC, developed by Hungerford Properties: 45 private, owned auto storage units of 1,000 to 2,500 square feet with an owners' clubhouse, with interiors designed by Truspace. For the 2017 launch, NoTriangle Studio rendered the exterior by day and at dusk, the clubhouse, four themed units named Stuttgart, Maranello, Detroit and Goodwood, and an empty unit, and produced a two-minute film. Later work added a 360 VR tour of the Stuttgart unit and updated exteriors. The building was completed in 2020.

Can a 360 VR tour run on a phone or tablet, and can we host it ourselves?

Yes. For Trove, Truspace asked whether the tour could be viewed on an iPad without a headset, simply moving the tablet to look around, and it can: our 360 tours run in the browser on current phones and tablets, and a Google Cardboard-style viewer is optional. The Trove tour placed the viewer in the Stuttgart unit at two points, on the main floor and on the mezzanine, and was delivered in October 2018 as a self-contained package with instructions for hosting it on Truspace's own server.

What resolution are finals, and can they be printed large-format?

Standard finals are 4K, and larger masters are rendered when the image is going to print. For Trove, the daytime exterior also exists as a master about 16,900 pixels wide, which Hungerford Properties requested in 2018, and when the exteriors were re-rendered in 2019 Hungerford chose 6K finals because it planned to print them large-format. Truspace, for its part, asked for its interior views at a resolution good for prints up to 24 by 36 inches. Telling us the largest print size at the start lets us render at the right size once.

Daytime 3D exterior rendering by NoTriangle Studio of Trove, the luxury car condominium building by Hungerford Properties in Richmond, BC: a two-storey building in white and charcoal panels with a red Trove sign, a white-framed glass lounge window on the upper floor, numbered glass garage doors along the ground floor, and a green supercar and a red Ferrari F40 in the forecourt.

Case study

Trove Luxury Car Condominiums

Renderings, a launch film and a VR tour for Hungerford Properties' private auto storage condos, where owners keep their cars in garages furnished like clubhouses.

Richmond · British Columbia

Project at a glance

NoTriangle visualized Trove, a building of 45 luxury car condominiums in Richmond, BC, for Hungerford Properties and the interior designers at Truspace. A car condo is a hard thing to sell off a floor plan, so the images had to show what the plan could not: an empty garage bay turned into a private gallery, lounge and bar for the owner's collection.

Developer: Hungerford Properties
Interior design: Truspace
Building design: Christopher Bazyk Architects
Location: 13880 Wireless Way, Richmond, BC (Metro Vancouver)
Building type: Luxury car condominiums: 45 private auto storage units of 1,000 to 2,500 sq ft, with an owners' clubhouse
Purpose: Launch and sales marketing
Scope: Eight renderings (two exteriors, the clubhouse, four themed units, one empty unit), a two-minute film, and a 360 VR tour of the Stuttgart unit; later, a re-rendered Stuttgart unit and both exteriors re-rendered to the final architecture at 6K for print
Engagement: Through Truspace in 2017 and 2018, then directly for Hungerford Properties in 2018 and 2019
Status: Built, completed in 2020, and in use (Sept 2026)

The film

The 2017 launch film: the forecourt, the clubhouse and the themed units, in two minutes

The brief

Selling a Garage as a Lifestyle.

Trove is a new kind of property for the region. Hungerford Properties marketed it as "Vancouver's first luxury automotive storage condominiums": a secure, two-storey building on Wireless Way in Richmond with 45 units of 1,000 to 2,500 square feet that owners buy outright, a clubhouse for owners' events, and vehicle elevators between the floors. Each unit is a garage, but with room for a mezzanine, a kitchen or bar and a lounge above the cars.

That was the selling problem. On paper a unit is a concrete box with an overhead door, and the buyer Hungerford wanted was paying for what it could become. Truspace, the office design-build firm Hungerford brought in for the interiors, designed four fit-out packages that draw on car culture around the world and on the feel of a private members' club. In 2017 Truspace asked NoTriangle to bring the building and those four ideas to life before anyone could walk through them.

3D interior rendering by NoTriangle Studio of the Stuttgart unit at Trove car condominiums in Richmond, BC, designed by Truspace: four Porsches parked on a pale concrete floor between charcoal wall panels and white walls with cove lighting, a timber kitchen wall and a floating white stair at the back, and a white-framed glass mezzanine office above. — The Stuttgart unit, one of four themed fit-outs designed by Truspace, with a glass-fronted office on the mezzanine

The approach

Four Units, Four Kinds of Collector.

Truspace named its four packages after places that mean something to car people: Stuttgart, Maranello, Detroit and Goodwood. We treated each one as a portrait of the owner who would choose it, and let the cars carry the story. Stuttgart is cool and precise, with Porsches under linear lights and an office above. Maranello is the largest, with a lounge at its centre, a lit wall of motorcycles and a line of Italian exotics. Detroit is warm brick, racing posters and American muscle. Goodwood is quiet British luxury, walnut panelling and leather.

Alongside the four themes we rendered the clubhouse, set up for an owners' evening around a hypercar, an empty unit to show the base product, and the building by day and at dusk. The same scenes then became a two-minute film, which Hungerford Properties published on its YouTube channel in September 2017.

3D interior rendering by NoTriangle Studio of the Detroit unit at Trove car condominiums in Richmond, BC, designed by Truspace: exposed red brick hung with vintage racing and film posters and enamel signs, a white Ford GT40 with an orange stripe and a dark green classic Mustang on a concrete floor, a steel stair up to a lounge mezzanine with a bar, and a tall glass case displaying two motorcycles. — The Detroit unit: brick, racing memorabilia and American muscle, with a lounge and bar on the mezzanine

3D interior rendering by NoTriangle Studio of the Goodwood unit at Trove car condominiums in Richmond, BC, designed by Truspace: a white McLaren and a silver Aston Martin on a pale concrete floor, a walnut-panelled mezzanine lounge with leather armchairs above a kitchen with a lit wine wall and marble island, and a backlit textured art panel over a display shelf. — The Goodwood unit, in walnut and leather, with a kitchen and wine wall below the lounge

After the launch

A Unit You Can Stand Inside, and a Facade That Matches the Build.

The images kept working after the launch, and the project kept coming back. In 2018 Hungerford Properties asked us directly for a new version of the Stuttgart unit, and Truspace then commissioned a 360 VR tour of it, with two viewpoints, one on the main floor and one on the mezzanine, so a prospective owner could stand in the space on a tablet or phone. We delivered the tour in October 2018 as a package Truspace could host on its own server.

By late 2018 the building's design had moved on from the 2017 exteriors, so Hungerford asked us to bring both views up to date from its architect's latest CAD and Revit files. We rebuilt the model and confirmed every change in greyscale before any color went on: the perforated metal guardrails, charcoal spandrel glass, tinted glazing on the upper floor, frosted glass along the ground floor, louvers over the loading doors and the final position of the Trove signage. The two new exteriors were delivered in spring 2019 at 6K, because Hungerford planned to print them large-format.

3D rendering by NoTriangle Studio of an empty unit at Trove car condominiums in Richmond, BC, seen from outside through its raised glass overhead door beside a door marked 11: a white bay with a concrete floor, a two-level car lift holding two white supercars, and a steel mezzanine and stair at the back. — An empty unit as the buyer gets it, with a car lift and a steel mezzanine, ready to fit out

The outcome

From Concept to a Club on Wireless Way.

"You made a great last visual for the Stuttgart route, and I will need that level of work."
Design consultant to Truspace, formerly its West Coast Design Director, 2019

Trove was completed in 2020, and in July of that year Hungerford Properties held its first Cars and Coffee for owners at the finished building. The launch film is still on Hungerford's YouTube channel, and Truspace's own Trove case study is illustrated with our renderings.

Over three years the work passed between the interior designer and the developer and back, and both kept returning: Truspace for the VR tour, Hungerford for the new Stuttgart view and the updated exteriors. As Hungerford's marketing manager put it in the middle of the exterior update, the studio's communication was "one of the main reasons why I love working with you guys." In the same months, Hungerford had us produce the presale imagery for Hazelwood, its 152-townhome community in South Surrey.

Questions

Rendering a Car Condo Before It Exists

What is Trove, and what did NoTriangle create for it?: Trove is a building of luxury car condominiums at 13880 Wireless Way in Richmond, BC, developed by Hungerford Properties: 45 private, owned auto storage units of 1,000 to 2,500 square feet with an owners' clubhouse, with interiors designed by Truspace. For the 2017 launch, NoTriangle Studio rendered the exterior by day and at dusk, the clubhouse, four themed units named Stuttgart, Maranello, Detroit and Goodwood, and an empty unit, and produced a two-minute film. Later work added a 360 VR tour of the Stuttgart unit and updated exteriors. The building was completed in 2020.
Can a 360 VR tour run on a phone or tablet, and can we host it ourselves?: Yes. For Trove, Truspace asked whether the tour could be viewed on an iPad without a headset, simply moving the tablet to look around, and it can: our 360 tours run in the browser on current phones and tablets, and a Google Cardboard-style viewer is optional. The Trove tour placed the viewer in the Stuttgart unit at two points, on the main floor and on the mezzanine, and was delivered in October 2018 as a self-contained package with instructions for hosting it on Truspace's own server.
What resolution are finals, and can they be printed large-format?: Standard finals are 4K, and larger masters are rendered when the image is going to print. For Trove, the daytime exterior also exists as a master about 16,900 pixels wide, which Hungerford Properties requested in 2018, and when the exteriors were re-rendered in 2019 Hungerford chose 6K finals because it planned to print them large-format. Truspace, for its part, asked for its interior views at a resolution good for prints up to 24 by 36 inches. Telling us the largest print size at the start lets us render at the right size once.

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