Tuesday, August 23, 2016

How are Stakeholders helped by Residential Architectural Renderings?

 As a home builder, architect, home designer, home buyer or indeed any other key stakeholder in the development of a residential site, you may question whether a residential architectural rendering is worth the additional time and money. Residential architectural rendering has in fact played a special role in clarifying a design vision, connecting buyers and other stakeholders to the project, and verifying the design’s feasibility. Over the years, visual models of proposed developments have been a key component to more sales and more efficient construction processes, making their evolution from hand drawn sketches to immersive 3D models inevitable.

Residential architectural rendering outputs were initially hand drawn sketches of an architect’s vision for a house. Today, renderings are even more visually inviting than in the past, and can range in their depth of detail. For example, 2D and 3D architectural rendering services are often used to help market and convey the vision for the site being developed. Alternatively, residential BIM modeling is often focused on confirming the accuracy of the building or site design, by including the display of key utilities and structural components. Whether you choose to invest in a visually appealing residential architectural rendering, or a design conscious residential BIM model, producing a visual representation of your project is a key and can benefit all parties involved.

Residential architectural rendering and residential BIM modeling allows you to clarify the vision you have for the house design being created. Whether that vision relates to aesthetics, functionality or cost it can be assessed using either residential architectural renderings or residential BIM modeling. In the case of the stakeholder, a rendering of the house is one of the best methods for establishing the initial look and feel of the site improvements. A residential architectural rendering of either an interior or exterior brings a realistic, aesthetic dimension to the design process that floor plans and section drawings are unable to achieve. The productions of residential architectural renderings communicate and confirm the vision for the building being developed between the stakeholder, contractor, and the buyers.

Residential architectural rendering of the building allows your buyers to experience and connect with your project. Using an architectural rendering for a residential development allows a homebuilder to more easily sell and market the idea of the development’s design. Renderings can be from any angle, any view, in any location, offering a variety of ways to showcase the project highlights that will help to make the sale. Not only does a residential architectural rendering allow for stress-free marketing of your site it allows for stress-free design confirmation.

With respect to design feasibility and construction, residential BIM modeling or residential architectural renderings are beneficial because they add a visual layer to the design confirmation process. By visualizing the components to be constructed, another layer of confirmation is added to the building design of the site. 3D walkthroughs, renderings, or the use of residential BIM modeling may also allow for the opportunity to increase efficiency in the building design, construction processes, or the user’s interaction with the site. Ultimately, the use of 3D architectural rendering services can prevent and mitigate design errors during the construction or design that can lead to extensive financial and time-based costs.

Although they may mean additional cost and time, the visual layer that 3d renders or BIM models can bring to the design and marketing process outweigh the cost and time drawbacks. For a number of years, the quality of renderings has evolved because key stakeholders, architects, contractors, and potential buyers demand more information and visual references – they will continue to do so and therefore the importance of a reliable, experienced, potentially offshore provider of rendered images become important.

Monday, June 27, 2016

Benefits of using Revit Architecture for 3D Renders



Autodesk Revit was introduced well over a decade ago, it is software for architects, designers, MEP engineers, structural engineers and contractors. Over the years, Revit adoption has progressed rapidly in the AEC industry, which in itself has seen revolutionary developments in the same period.

Revit is available in many packages, which includes, Autodesk Revit Architecture and Autodesk Revit MEP, amongst others. Autodesk Revit Architecture provides an array of tools required for projects across a range of architectural sectors, including home building and retail  along with the ability to prepare 3D renders. It is a tool extensively used by companies providing Architectural CAD Services, Architectural Drafting Service and Architectural 3D Rendering Services.

Revit architecture utilises parametric design processes which enable seamless modification of a related environment whenever an element in the adjacent environment is changed, thus maintaining continuity within a single project file. One of the more recent tools of Revit architecture is its ability to generate 3D renders, as 3D renders enable architects, consultants and associated professionals to present their design ideas and  architectural vision through 3D images to clients and associated project stakeholders. The main highlight of architectural rendering using Revit Architecture is its capability to augment visualisation and facilitate the creation of 3D views.

Listed below are a few of the features and benefits of using Revit Architecture for 3D renders:  

  • Precise sun settings in the renders
    Revit Architecture carries settings to produce accurate colour reproduction such as proper set up of  lighting and materials. Exterior daytime renders are created by using sun setting option, allowing to  create a precise sun angle and position relative to the building. Revit Architecture also accurately portrays the sunlight for specific locations around the world, by just stating time and date with the  desired location in the settings. 
  • Accurate production of Resolution -
    Based upon client requirements and the end use of the image, the resolution of rendered images can  be selected. If the rendered image is going to be used for a large presentation board then a high  resolution setting can be selected and for a relatively small image, where the level of detail is less, a  lower resolution setting can be selected. 
  • Comparatively quicker than the competition -
    The majority of the competitive rendering engines utilise a high amount of CPU memory and also require advanced GPU’s, which ultimately results in a lot of time consumption to produce high quality renders. Revit Architecture is fine tuned to utilise less CPU memory and in most cases does not require a GPU to handle complex scenes and lightings, improving the overall efficiency and creating high resolution renders in significantly less time. 
  • Higher reliability ratio -
    Due to advanced settings that provide the best performance under varied settings, Revit Architecture  creates renders with high resolution in much less time, where similar rendering engines fail to create renders of lower resolution. Hence, along with providing an optimum output, Revit Architecture is a  highly reliable tool to create high quality 3D renders. 
  • Variety of tool options -
    Revit Architecture comes  with a variety of tool options, such as a visualisation related election tool’ in the ‘View’ panel on the ‘Modify’ tab. There are many more similar tools available on Revit  Architecture which can be useful for various tasks other than creating renders.

Revit Architecture is becoming one of the more versatile tools for overall design modeling and documentation. The ability to generate 3D renders using an array of options has broadened the appeal and use of the tool for architects and designers. There are a variety of additional benefits of using Revit Architecture for 3D Renders other than the few listed above, which are updated in every new iteration of the software, making it a sought after tool for designers around the world..