How To Create Photorealistic Renderings With Architalon

Are you a designer or an architect? Do you want visualizations with Italon tiles to look as realistic as possible, but don’t know where to download textures in high resolution? We have created an Architalon portal exclusively for architects and designers on our official website, www.italonceramica.ru/en/. It’s a unique service of theoretical and technical support, which makes working with Italon professional solutions convenient and of high quality. In this article, we will talk about the features of this tool.

HOW TO GET ACCESS TO ARCHITALON

It’s very simple! The access to Architalon is provided after a quick registration where you enter your contact information and click on the “register” button. We emphasize that this is a completely free tool that we have developed specifically for designers and architects.

On the main page of Architalon you will find several sections:

• Maxi Format. Where you can get acquainted with the range of 120×278 porcelain tiles and learn all about their features.
• Design support area. Where you can download the necessary materials to create realistic visualizations.
• Tile laying tips. Where you will find Italon’s recommended laying patterns for various formats. By clicking on a specific pattern, you can calculate the amount of material needed in square meters.

You will also find a convenient search system to help you quickly find the material you’re interested in. For example, if you’re looking for white stone-effect porcelain tiles in the 80×80 format, go down to the search bar and select stone in the “look” bar, 80×80 in “format”, matt in “finishing”, and any other additional parameter. The search results will show all Italon tile collections that match the given parameters.

HOW TO DOWNLOAD DESIGN MATERIALS FROM ARCHITALON

Architalon is a database of useful tools that are essential for creating quality visualizations. How to download materials? By clicking on the “Browse the Materials” button in the “Design support area” section, you will be taken to a page with the available collections of Italon porcelain stoneware and wall tiles.

Select the series you are interested in, click on “Discover all materials”, and you will see all the available materials for creating visualizations with this collection.

For a quick search on Architalon, you can filter by name, type of material (porcelain stoneware, wall tiles or street tiles) and graphic effect.

You can also sort by year (newer, older) or alphabetically.

MODULAR TEXTURES ON ARCHITALON

The main novelty of Architalon is modular textures or panels. They allow you to reduce the time needed to create visualizations. This is a turnkey solution that mimics tile layout, a handy tool for designers who work with both 2D and 3D visualizations.

In the TIF file for each article you will find separate layers with graphics, texture, joints / grout, highlights for glossy surfaces.

For each article (porcelain stoneware, wall tiles or decors) there is 1 panel, which uses a large number of faces / graphic variations.

For irregularly shaped decors, we recommend using modular textures, it’s much easier, more convenient and faster!

TEXTURES ON ARCHITALON

La sezione ”texture” section, you can download an archive with tile or decor textures. We have increased the number of graphic variations of the tile: now the background tile textures are available in 5-6 faces.

To download textures, you must click on the “Discover all Textures” button.

You can download an archive with all the textures of the collection, or an archive of textures for a specific color in all available formats, or an archive of textures for a specific article. To do this, select the color and format, then click “download”.

In the downloaded archive you will find design materials and instructions for their use.

In addition to textures, on Architalon you can download 3D models of special Italon products such as steps and baseboards, as well as 3D models of furniture and sanitary ware by Italon Home.

If you’re a designer or an architect, then the Architalon portal will be very convenient for you. You will find everything you need to create realistic visualizations: textures, modular textures, 3D models of Italon Home and much more. We hope this article sheds light on why it’s worth registering on the Architalon portal to use official textures in your projects.
We would like to point out that Architalon is both an online platform on the official website and a real space in the Italon Experience Showrooms, where you can view materials, find out the necessary information about products and take advantage of special design tools.

Look for an Italon Experience showroom near you using the Dealer locator.
Best of luck with your projects!