Floor Plan presentation techniques

[David Bearss]

I am preparing for a series of model home designs and I am looking for some different samples / options and graphic techniques for presentation floor plans and elevations to be generated within Archicad. Possibly 2D plan rendered in Lightworks, or sketch. Color ideas would be nice. Would anybody be kind enough to suggest options or post some examples or links to samples for inspiration?
Much appreciated.

[Anonymous]

Here is an example of combining 2D & 3D views from the model and pasting a previously rendered (LightWorks) perspective, all on the same sheet. Hope that helps.

+pablo

[rjwilden]

This is how I do a floor plan sketch at the moment. A combination of sketch, Lightworks and 5-10min in photo shop. Gives me this loose sketchy look. The whole process would take 30min for a floor plan. Then import into layout along with a few exterior and interior sketchs.


Richard.

[Steve Jepson]

David wrote:
I am preparing for a series of model home designs and I am looking for some different samples / options and graphic techniques for presentation floor plans and elevations to be generated within Archicad. Possibly 2D plan rendered in Lightworks, or sketch. Color ideas would be nice. Would anybody be kind enough to suggest options or post some examples or links to samples for inspiration?
Much appreciated.

How would the drawings be used/presented?

Posters, brochures, website graphics, magazine format, billboards at job site, side of the buss add, relators box ?
Something for use by the developer selling the homes?

The one thing ArchiCAD does very well that works for all of these things
is an exquisitely modeled sketch render.

Add your shadow separately so it wont have those annoying outlines at the edge.

I like Alan Mascord's format. In place of photographs, use stetch renders until you can get good photographs.
http://www.mascord.com/plan_details.asp?PlanID=1408

[David Bearss]

How would the drawings be used/presented?

Posters, brochures, website graphics, magazine format, billboards at job site, side of the buss add, relators box ?
Something for use by the developer selling the homes?

Mostly to be printed out on 11x17 with color printer for developer use. Occasionally printed in color on 24x36 and board mounted for wall display.

rjwilden your technique is inspiring!

We want our buyers to be able to easily read the plans and have the drawings appear to be creatively inspired and not look like a cleaned up construction drawing. Exterior views are fine with lightworks or sketch render and looking to see what others are doing to incorporate other techniques into plan views.

[__archiben]

combination of sketch render, lightworks render and layer blending in photoshop. (i forgot to turn the door/window opening arrows off in 3D though )

~/archiben

[edit]for some reason, the preview of this image appears as a blue smudge?! click through and it's in full colour. is it just me? (safari 3 beta) or is there some kind of new preview tech in operation here admins?[/edit]

[David Bearss]

That is a great technique. Ever try it with a wall plan?

[Rob]

(i forgot to turn the door/window opening arrows off in 3D though

and being pedantic there is your mouse pointer visible in right upper corner - just above those louvres...
you should pay more attention to the detail mate...

click through and it's in full colour. is it just me? (safari 3 beta)

nope, the thumbnail looks crappy on Firefox.6/win too.

[__archiben]

Rob wrote:
and being pedantic there is your mouse pointer visible in right upper corner - just above those louvres...

yeah yeah. you can take the boy out of england... eh?

[Anonymous]

I do this sort of thing for quick presentation plans to clients - floor plan from Archicad, then overlayed onto rendered floor plan in Artlantis. Or if I haven't taken it into artlantis yet, I just add colour in photoshop. Pretty quick + easy after you do a couple.