Design-to-Reality (DTR) Process
Pixelated Ceilings turn your creative vision into a buildable masterpiece through our DTR process:
- Define the perimeter and ceiling shape.
- Parametric modelling generates dowel heights and placement.
- Integrate lighting as required.
- Receive a pre-cut, fully labelled kit, ready to install.
Our team will support you every step of the way, from early feasibility and detailing to delivery of your custom-labelled kit, reducing time and errors on site.
Material & Finish Options
Pixelated Ceilings are available in a range of interior-grade finishes to complement your palette. Samples are recommended to appreciate the natural timber variation.
Applications
Pixelated Ceilings are ideal for:
- Hospitality design – create dramatic feature ceilings for lobbies, bars, cafes and restaurants.
- Commercial spaces – bring warmth, texture, and acoustic comfort to offices or retail.
- Cultural projects – design immersive ceilings for galleries, museums, and public buildings.
Bring Your Creative Vision to Life
Why settle for a stock-standard ceiling when you could create something extraordinary?
With Pixelated Ceilings, you’re not just finishing a space, you’re transforming it into an immersive experience. Bold, sculptural, and endlessly adaptable, this modular timber dowel system empowers you to achieve designs that truly stand apart.
Discover how a Pixelated Ceiling can turn your next project into a showpiece. Reach out to discuss how our DTR services and parametric modelling can simplify your concept into something ready to build.
We recommend viewing samples before final selection to appreciate the natural variation in timber. For help choosing the right finish, visit our timber coatings guide.
Belvedere Main Beach
Blackstone, Sydney Office
Kooyong Residence
Coogee Residence
SecuritEase, NZ
Heathpool Residence
Aldercastle, UK
Lexus of Christchurch, NZ
Desert Temple California, US
The aluminum Click-on Screens, particularly the wood textures, are unparalleled on the market. The ability to use natural timber and aluminum battens interchangeably, with a near-perfect match in wood species and grain, provides a level of design flexibility and aesthetic cohesion that we have not found elsewhere.
Trafford Centre Eastern Garden, UK
Paparoa Visitor Centre, NZ
Aspley Mazda
MaxCap Group Office
Upper House
Medibank Melbourne Hub
Canberra Hospital
Centrepiece - Melbourne Park
Co-op Live, UK
Parametric Curved Timber Rooftop Canopy
Registry of Births, Deaths, and Marriages
Scientia Terrace
Marvel Stadium
Western Sydney University
School of Ballet
As a revered heritage site, the Thomas Dixon Centre holds significant cultural and historic value for the region. Through a program of meticulous restoration and adaptive reuse, the Centre has been sensitively transformed into a dynamic space that seamlessly combines the preservation of its architectural heritage with the demands of modern functionality.
Riviere Apartments
Marnkutyi Parirna Theatre
In our opinion, Sculptform’s products are the best on the market. We’ve worked with many other systems, but Sculptform stands out for its quality, reliability, and ease of installation. Their click-on system is phenomenal - there’s nothing else out there like it. We never have issues, and we never get callbacks.
Jacaranda Finance Office Fitout
Most of the batten screens we’ve done in the past were built from scratch. Sculptform’s prefabricated system allowed the carpenters to install everything much more efficiently. The clear oil finish saved even more time since we didn’t have to coat each batten on site.
London Luton Airport, UK
Timber Awning Soffit on George Street
Tiwu Kumangka
Integrating Local Culture and World-Class Design
An exquisite blend of cultural richness, unparalleled design, and top-tier hospitality.
Ramsgate
Koorie Heritage Trust
Embassy of Australian - Washington
The environmentally sensitive design embodies the spirit of Australia through direct references to the distinctive Australian landscape: its bright and clear natural light and open skies, its warm materiality and its vast scale...
ANU Law School
TLC Whitewater
Alba Thermal Springs
Caesar’s Superdome
Warrnambool Library and Learning Centre
Sunshine Coast City Hall
The vision for Sunshine Coast City Hall is to create a built form of enduring beauty and civic significance that represents the region and its climate. Akin to the mountainous rocky outcrops of the region, the building rises from the Maroochydore coastal plain and adjoining urban square with landscaping a key feature of the building reflecting the native flora of the region.
The Pavilion Performing Arts Centre
HERB - Barwon Health
George Street Plaza
My hope is that this new community building and George Street public plaza will become a cherished destination in Sydney’s city center, a generative place for people to connect, recharge, reflect and take a pause from the rhythm of a fast-transforming city.
Prince of Wales Hospital
American Australian Association
The design ambition was to create a space that felt organic and contrasted the hard lines of the New York cityscape just outside the windows. We accomplished this through the floor pattern, furniture selection, and most importantly with the Sculptform cladding on the walls and ceiling.
HC Coombs Centre
Cranbrook School Bellevue Hill Campus Redevelopment
Our guiding principles for the new buildings put people at the heart of the design solutions and make meaningful connections to place.
Cranbrook School Chapel
Our guiding principles for the new buildings put people at the heart of the design solutions and make meaningful connections to place.
Campbell House
A design approach is seated in the relationship between the two generations of building – how one is situated against the other, how the detail strengthens the contemporary without detracting from the inherited and how contemporary usage operates smoothly in the new arrangement.
End of Trip Facility at 179 Queen Street
Aalia Restaurant
Heritage Lanes - 80 Ann Street
We designed 80 Ann from a deep understanding of the city and the site’s heritage as the former Brisbane Fruit & Produce Exchange. We had a strong desire to re-create the atmosphere of the marketplace and create a memorable destination for the people of Brisbane that feels quintessential to the city.
Larc by GRAYA™
Quarter One
Custom Ceiling of Grocery Store
Quay Quarter Tower
Upcycling the original tower has not been the easiest route, but it’s certainly a smart way to go. Smarter for the planet because it’s saved around 7.3 million kilograms of carbon. That’s equal to 35,000 flights Sydney to Melbourne.
Brindabella Circuit
Deakin University ManuFutures
We designed the Imagineering lab to support small-scale prototyping for businesses in early development, and located it close to the entry, showcasing production and signalling, this is what ManuFutures is all about.
ID Land
EastCo
From the beginning, the design has been a highly integrated processes with involvement from the entire project team. Our practice has a strong understanding of the government sector, and our highly consultative approach means we were able to hone a clear design framework for creating a tailored environment for the Department’s people and also for the community they serve.
447 Collins Street
Hubert Estate
Capitol Grand
Creek Street Christian College
Mona Vale Surf Life Saving Club
Swancare Ningana Aged Care
Our design concept starts by breaking down space into legible, familiar components. A whole-of-building approach uses the analogy of a home /street /neighbourhood /village /town. Each room (‘home’) is clustered in a group of 8-10 on a short corridor (a ‘street’), with adjacent dedicated living, dining and kitchenette spaces (the ‘neighbourhood’). Four ‘neighbourhoods’ create a ‘village’ on each of the four floors. The entire building becomes the ‘town’, centred on an active central courtyard.
Langston Place
Manunda Place
Our client sought a new building to reinvigorate a key site within Darwin’s urban precinct. Situated at the busy intersection of Cavenagh and Knuckey it would form an important milestone in the regeneration of the local area. Darwin's northern tropical climate presented specific challenges — soaring temperatures, cyclone winds and heavy rainfall all had to be considered — as did the remote location.
Luxton Homes Office
Alignment Studio
Australian National Maritime Museum
A long-awaited change as part of the museum rebranding, the intention behind a redesigned store was to create a space that is an essential destination during a visit to the museum - and one which seamlessly blends within the museum foyer space.
Discover every nook of our Design Studio
MyState Bank Arena
The feedback that we’ve had from the Tasmanian Government has been tremendous. For them to have significantly invested into this project and for it to be such a good result – exhibiting good quality Tasmanian timber – is a testament to what the Tasmanian Wood Encouragement Policy can achieve. It also shows they have the community’s best interest at heart by locking up as much carbon as they can through government projects. It’s a great sustainability story.
Defence Housing Australia Gungahlin Office
The University of Auckland Library
Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre
Shape Head Office
Para Hills Primary School's Timber Ceiling
Pavilion
The Spiral Staircase of Stephen Street
Eagle House
Paragon Melbourne
Pipi House
Meredith Connell - MC Centre
Lake Macquarie City Council Office
York Street Timber Facade
The Click-on Battens specified and associated fixing system is an exceptional product and allowed the design and set-out of the building to be executed with precision.
Property NSW, Parramatta Square
The layered design approach of the podium engages with the immediate public domain at street level, and the elegant tower forms present as urban markers of arrival to Parramatta.
Timber Battens and Screens Enhance APL Office Design
Amongst other objectives, APL stated the factory should provide a second home to staff, be inspirational, set standards for corporations to follow and of course produce the best window systems in the country.
20 Bond Street, Sydney
Cove House
The client’s brief called for a materially-rich and tactile house that celebrated their love of subtropical architecture.
Courts Administration Authority of South Australia
JARtB House
Boroondara Sports Centre's Timber Facade
Gunyama Park's Timber Ceilings
Timber Feature Walls of 488 Queen Street
Glowrey Catholic Primary School
Her Majesty's Theatre
It was a treat to discover that the Adelaide Festival Centre had salvaged some of the heritage elements from the 1970's demolition, a pressed metal detail, and a skirting board, to name a few. Our approach to the contemporary design was to deconstruct these details. For instance, the pressed metal pattern informed the floor tile shape, and the 1913 wrought iron balcony fronts sort as the inspiration for a contemporary acoustic filigree.
Knox Children and Family Centre
k20 Architecture has designed the building to be transparent, open and to create a feeling of warmth and comfort. The main entrance is clad in timber and at 2.4-metres high, offers space but a certain intimacy that will not overwhelm the children as they move through.
Buddle Findlay
Commercial Bay
Commercial Bay is simultaneously a destination for retail, food, entertainment & commerce; a transport node at the confluence of rail, bus and ferry infrastructure; an enabler of Auckland’s most transformative project in the form of the City Rail Link, a connector of the waterfront promenade, and a new symbol of Auckland’s emergent confidence.
Melbourne Airport T2
The refurbishment is going to create a more spacious and inviting environment for our travellers while providing better connectivity to the rest of our terminal building.
570 St Kilda Road
Blackfriars Priory School
Salamanca Building Parliament Square
The Link
Waiparuru Hall
Ivanhoe Apartments
Campbelltown Catholic Club
The Workshop
Workshop draws on the historical context of Pyrmont's masonry warehouses and combines this with a contemporary high-quality workplace that looks and feels different to typical office buildings.
Victoria Point Foyer
Our biggest design challenge was the tight budget and program. We felt creating strategic curved walls lined in Sculptform timber battens would elevate the existing space, allowing us to pair back the rest of the finishes. The curved ribbon is also functional in nature; housing the building managers office, letterboxes and parcel storage. The use of the concept click system also enabled time-efficient installation of the walls to minimise the downtime for the residents occupying the building.
Swift Science & Technology Centre
Sydney Coliseum
WestConnex M8 Junction
Thomas Foods
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Moving House
Vision Australia
Wallan Veterinary Hospital
The hospital is located within a residential zone and we were determined to be as respectful as possible with the neighbouring buildings. After our site analysis, we decided that a timber façade would go a long way in softening the building’s presence.
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East Sydney Early Learning Centre
Maitland Riverlink
The architecture is intended to act as a civic set piece in a street full of great buildings with enduring materials. It also must have a strong architectural form to register as a landmark when viewed from the levee bank, from neighbouring Lorn and the Belmore Bridge. We imagined a ‘sculptural gateway’ in which the material scale, grain and texture was consistent on all sides of the frame, even though the ceiling and walls couldn’t have been constructed from the same material.
Joynton Avenue Creative Centre
Sorrento House
The whole house came together with the use of the Click-on Batten system, blackbutt, Hillview granite stone, rammed earth walls and architecture of the house. From a distance, the timber gives the house a wow factor and shows all the precise angles and elevations.
NAB 700 Bourke Street
Deakin University Melbourne Burwood Campus
Marnong Estate
356 Collins
201 Kent Street
Abercrombie Building - University of Sydney
Queensland Childrens Hospital Academic and Research Facility
530 Collins Street
Sir Zelman Cowen Centre For Science - Scotch College
Novartis
Sony Foundation You Can Centre
Kathmandu Chermside
Aqui Promenade
Double Bay Library
Launceston Airport
Australia Square Food Court
Raheen Library
The Chancellery - Western Sydney University
Sydney International Convention Centre
Plenary Office
Huntingtower School Performing Arts Centre
Melbourne Jet Base
Double Bay House
Cairns Performing Arts Centre
The sustainable timber batten materials, clean lines & the simplicity of the Sculptform Click-on Battens system met both the design vision for the project and provided a necessary economy for the significant quantum of timber battens that exist in the CPAC project.
Parliament of Victoria Members Annexe
Harbord Diggers
The versatility of Sculptform cladding and battens allowed us to use timber unrestricted by the building form, creating a more cohesive design outcome.
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
Four Points by Sheraton
The Club Stand at Victoria Racing Club
The Sculptform team were a responsive and supportive resource who worked intelligently to satisfy both Bates Smart and MPX. Sculptform were integral to achieving a solution for the FR issue while fully cognisant of the aesthetic goals of the project. We would not hesitate to recommend both the Sculptform team and their product to other Architects.
Sir Louis Matheson Library Monash University
Rydges Hotel Wellington Airport
Pablo and Rusty's Brisbane
Padua College
Western Sydney University
West Gippsland Arts Centre
FV by Peppers
Australian Catholic University
Swinburne University of Technology Innovation and Design Hub
RACV Cape Schanck Resort
All Souls Chapel
Hanna's Cafe
Lot 100 Cellar Door
The look of the finished project was outstanding with pre-finished timber battens on a black shadow board, overall it was a good simple product to use to achieve a fantastic look.
Methodist Ladies College
Taronga Zoo Institute of Science and Learning
Victoria Gardens Shopping Centre
The use of Sculptform’s online ‘Price and Spec’ tool was a vital tool in the creation and visualisation of the varied Click-on batten installations across the centre.
Patch Apartments
Westfield Newmarket
Arkadia Apartments
One of the most important aspects of the facade is the effect the battens create as you approach the building and walk around it. The form changes from being an apparently solid timber box to being nearly transparent. As you move around the building this level of transparency changes and seems to interact with you.
Hannah and Daryl Cohen Family Building
The hospital is located within a residential zone and we were determined to be as respectful as possible with the neighbouring buildings. After our site analysis, we decided that a timber façade would go a long way in softening the building’s presence.
Warilla Library
Creating our Design Studio
Wesley College School of Music
Stunning Timber Ceiling Details at Westpac
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Our clients are at the heart of every project and it’s our job to deliver on the big picture and the smallest detail. We’re your proactive design partner – we’ll listen to what you really need and work with you to make sure the job gets done right.
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