CAMPAIGNAugust 7, 2026

LIDAR Wizard: Forest Imagery at Architectural Scale

Our collaboration with Rollout translates imagery from a Sunshine Coast old-growth ecosystem into four immersive mural patterns for everyday interiors.

EMERGENT LAYER

Rollout recently introduced Emergent Layer to its design community through the LIDAR Wizard collection: four large-scale mural patterns developed from imagery captured in a Sunshine Coast old-growth ecosystem. The collaboration takes a visual language formed through forest scanning and field documentation and carries it into another kind of public space — the walls of homes, studios, offices, and gathering rooms.

LIDAR Wizard 19 forest mural installed behind a long table in a warm-toned boardroom — Fig. 01 — LIDAR Wizard 19 (Dark 1), shown in an in-situ boardroom visualization. The large-scale surface holds the depth, shadow, and irregular structure of the forest.

From the Forest to the Wall

Emergent Layer uses LiDAR scanning, photography, and field observation to make old-growth forests legible in new ways. Some outputs remain quantitative: point clouds, stem inventories, stand measurements, and Atlas records. Others create an encounter with the forest through image, scale, and atmosphere.

LIDAR Wizard belongs to that second stream. Rather than presenting a scan as a technical diagram, the collection works with the pixelated, layered character of digital forest capture. Trunks and understory remain recognizable, while the image also reveals the gaps, fragments, and blocks that appear when a living place passes through a sensor and becomes data.

LIDAR Wizard 11 dark forest mural covering a wall beside a white staircase and home-office window — Fig. 02 — LIDAR Wizard 11 (Dark), in a bright home-office setting. The forest record changes the room without being reduced to a conventional landscape photograph.

A Different Kind of Public Record

The Atlas is where we publish measurable forest records. An installation has a different role: it keeps the forest present in the places where people live, meet, and make decisions. At wall scale, the imagery becomes environmental rather than illustrative. You do not simply look at a picture of a forest; the pattern occupies the room with you.

Rollout brought its wallcovering and production expertise to the collaboration, developing the source material into a family of architectural-scale surfaces. The result is a collection that can move beyond a browser or exhibition screen while retaining the strange depth and digital texture of its forest origin.

LIDAR Wizard 11 dark forest mural installed behind a modern desk in a low-lit office — Fig. 03 — LIDAR Wizard 11 (Dark), shown in an office visualization. A scan-informed forest image becomes the room's dominant spatial element.

The partnership opens another route into the conservation conversation: one grounded in material, interior space, and repeated daily contact. It is not a substitute for the field record. It is a way for that record's visual language to travel further.

Explore Emergent Layer at Rollout or view the LIDAR Wizard collection on Material Bank.

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