About | vrbn

We are vrbn

Headquartered near Zurich, Switzerland, vrbn (pronounced “urban”) offers high-end solutions and off-the-shelf 3D content for creatives in all industries that need 3D environments: In games, culture, history, advertisement, visual effects, simulation, and many others.

History

Our family business was founded over 80 years ago and was built up over three generations. It began life as a construction company before becoming a real estate and facility management firm.

As an extension to this, vrbn operates purely in the digital realm, offering services and 3D content for clients across the globe. The company’s experienced team, led by Chris and Matt Buehler, lives and breathes art, architecture, and technology, working on complex productions pipelines and challenging commercial projects.

Vision statement (The “What”)

Help people to visualize their story and get across their message by creating 3D worlds with passionate minds, cutting edge technology and Swiss precision.

Mission statement (The “How”)

Provide the best products and services in the industry, question assumptions, challenge human imagination and be ahead of the curve.

Executive team

Chris Buehler

CEO

With a background in law and real estate management, Chris runs vrbn on the strategic and administrative fronts.

Matt Buehler

CTO

After graduating from ETH Zurich (MSc Arch ETH), Matt has worked in landscape architecture and architectural visualization. As part of the CityEngine development team and later CityEngine Tech Support Lead he has a profound knowledge of 3D Modeling, Rendering, Visualization, Digital Sets and VFX in general. He also has hosted countless international presentations, workshops and trainings. At Scanline VFX, a high-end Visual Effects vendor, he worked in the creation of 3D landscapes and cities movies such as 'Independence Day Resurgence'.

vrbn was founded to push 3D design and content creation technologies in multiple sectors, such as Games, VFX, Architecture, XR, AI and the Metaverse.

Chris Buehler

CEO

With a background in law and real estate management, Chris runs vrbn on the strategic and administrative fronts.

Matt Buehler

CTO

Andreea Stefan

Robert Truong

Elias Datodji

Andreea Stefan

Robert Truong

Elias Datodji

Technical Director team

Anca Badut

Software Development team

Alexis Papagiannopoulos

Ángel Lis Montesinos

Chris Priscott

Cyrill Oberhaensli

Julio Campos Alvarez

Maxime Sainlot

Nick Lekkas

Tobias Frey

Alexis Papagiannopoulos

Ángel Lis Montesinos

Chris Priscott

Cyrill Oberhaensli

Julio Campos Alvarez

Maxime Sainlot

Nick Lekkas

Tobias Frey

What others are saying about us

Since starting out as consultants and service providers, we have had the pleasure of working with many interesting people from a wide variety of industries. We would like to let some of them have their say here, to give you an idea of who we are and what we do.

Pascal Mueller, Director at Esri R&D Center Zurich: one of our valued clients

Pascal Müller

Esri R&D Center Zurich
Director

"Matt is able to combine the best of architecture and procedural modeling. As a trained architect and visual effects-expert who contributed to the CityEngine software development for several years, Matt has the ideal skill set to teach the basics of procedural modeling as well as give exclusive insights into CityEngine".

Claudine Schibler

Zutt & Partner
Junior project manager design

"vrbn studios has precisely and tangibly visualized the ZUTT & PARTNER company's storytelling within our project «Key Company Visual» and identity concept in 3D: Detailed and on point".

Stephan Schweizer

Urban Games
Art Director

"The task was to create over 500 buildings for 3 different eras within a very short time. We had high standards of quality and design. Thanks to the co-operation with vrbn studios as a specialist in procedural modeling, we did it on time and the result is great".

Ulrich Gehmann

Ideal Spaces Working Group
Head of group

"Our exhibition was about Artificial Natures where we presented different worlds – e.g. an ideal city, a park, a city actually built – expressed as spaces. This translation process of world → space was of utmost importance for the whole exhibition, and without the help of vrbn studios, we wouldn’t have succeeded in this. The people of vrbn studios were capable of translating the characteristics we wanted to express into spatial relationships, and to do it in such a way that the visitor could gain the impression of an entire world. Therefore, we want to continue our cooperation in the future, taking advantage of both the technical skills and the immense spatial sensitivity of the vrbn studios‘ people".

Kelly Vero

Swiss Arts Council

"People would walk through broken glass to work with you".

Thierry Bosshard

Amt für Städtebau der Stadt Zürich
Project manager GIS

“A detailed and vibrant reconstruction of a 5000 year old village for an AR app? No problem for vrbn solutions! Throughout the entire project past Zurich, vrbn solutions acted very professionally, flexible in terms of time and in close exchange with the client. This resulted in a unique end-product, which is very successful and leaves nothing left to be desired”.

Our references

A large number of clients rely on us to make their visions and projects a digital reality – all while sticking to their budget and, of course, their time frame.

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AF

On-site training for architects and engineers, as well as procedural tools for master-planning and deriving visualizations of different kinds. A great experience for everyone including us.

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BMW

Advanced consulting for Autonomous Driving ranging from procedural city modelling to advanced rendering techniques and artist management. A road movie-experience of its own.

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Urban Games

We helped Transport Fever 2 to step up the game with its 3D buildings and provided over 500 buildings in three time eras for realistic urban layouts. On the road again!

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City of Zurich

A proven partnership in consulting and implementation of procedural urban planning tools for contemporary and historic content. An exciting journey to the past…

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City of Gothenburg

Strategic consulting and support in the implementation of the historic digital twin of Gothenburg. A fantastic mix between 3D tools, GIS and history.

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2K Games

Strategic consulting for advanced procedural creation of urban game levels. It’s the name of our game.

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Esri Turkey

A GIS-data inspired city in cartoon style for the Silver Screen? Sounds crazy? This is exactly what we did in this project collaboration.

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PhilaU

Hands-on and one-on-one training for GeoDesign students. We specified and implemented urban planning toolsets live during a design charrette. Great to work with young creative minds!

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Ideal Spaces Working Group

One of our passions is to research, design and create ideal 3D worlds. We often do this in close collaboration with the members of the ISWG. Striving for perfection!

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Morai

At the forefront of AI research for Autonomous Driving, Morai creates advanced driving simulators, for which we provide 3D buildings. Ride on!

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Mash Games

A realistic BMX game needs realistic 3D buildings! A perfect fit for our high-quality 3D content to create lively game levels!

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Mobiltech

A world leader in 3D GIS and mapping technology. Mobiltech are using our content to extend their city visualizations where data is missing. Mind the gap!

Partners

We are privileged and proud to work with some of the best and most creative minds of our industry.

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FMX

Annually, we return to Europe's biggest computer graphics conference - with presentations of our technical work and advances in 3D content.

fmx.de

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Ideal Spaces Working Group

One of our passions is to research, design and create ideal 3D worlds. We often do this in close collaboration with the members of the ISWG.

idealspaces.org

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Ikweta Arts

Ikweta is THE uprising art & VFX studio in Kenia. It's always a great honor and joy to be in contact with Yvonne and plan future collaborations!

ikwetaarts.com

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Esri Partner Network

Since the start, vrbn has been an official Esri Partner. We develop 3D GIS workflows based on many of the tools made by our friends in Redlands and Zurich.

esri.com

What we do is our passion. Welcome to our world.

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We are vrbn

History

Vision statement (The “What”)

Mission statement (The “How”)

Executive team

Chris Buehler

Matt Buehler

Chris Buehler

Matt Buehler

Technical artist team

Andreea Stefan

Robert Truong

Elias Datodji

Andreea Stefan

Robert Truong

Elias Datodji

Technical Director team

Anca Badut

Anca Badut

Software Development team

Alexis Papagiannopoulos

Ángel Lis Montesinos

Chris Priscott

Cyrill Oberhaensli

Julio Campos Alvarez

Maxime Sainlot

Nick Lekkas

Tobias Frey

Alexis Papagiannopoulos

Ángel Lis Montesinos

Chris Priscott

Cyrill Oberhaensli

Julio Campos Alvarez

Maxime Sainlot

Nick Lekkas

Tobias Frey

What others are saying about us

Pascal Müller

Claudine Schibler

Stephan Schweizer

Ulrich Gehmann

Kelly Vero

Thierry Bosshard

Our references

AF

BMW

Urban Games

City of Zurich

City of Gothenburg

2K Games

Esri Turkey

PhilaU

Ideal Spaces Working Group

Morai

Mash Games

Mobiltech

Partners

FMX

Ideal Spaces Working Group

Ikweta Arts

Esri Partner Network

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