Architectural presentation boards—comprising drawings, diagrams, images, and animations—are essential for showcasing your designs to clients and stakeholders. By effectively highlighting its key elements, you can ensure your design’s intent, purpose, and evolution are communicated clearly and engagingly.
In Lumion, you can produce personalized presentation boards that distill complex concepts into simple visual representations with a few helpful tools and effects.
Create orthographic views
Every project needs plans, sections, elevations, and other 2D drawings. In Lumion, you can produce these using the orthographic view effect.
With this effect, you can create precise 2D representations, as well as detailed sections using a clipping slider. It also lets you switch to 3D views, so you can render one-point perspectives or section perspectives if you require a more comprehensive understanding of a building’s interior and spatial relationships.
Remove the background
Massing diagrams and exploded axonometric views help convey the thought process behind a concept. By removing the context surrounding your design and replacing it with a blank background, you can ensure the focus is on the elements you wish to highlight.
With Lumion’s remove background effect, you can easily isolate your design and replace the sky and landscape with a color of your choice.
Certain diagrams could also benefit from simple animations, for an added element of dynamism.
Customize the details
These two effects can be fine-tuned and combined with other visual styles and effects in Lumion to give your drawings and diagrams a personal touch.
Try combining the orthographic view effect with the styrofoam effect—this not only looks visually appealing but allows you to control the amount of detail you want to show.
With the remove background effect, you can get creative by customizing the background color and the tone of the lighting and shadows.
Perfect the layout
A well-thought-out layout, strong visual hierarchy, and consistent style are important when it comes to presentation boards. Here are some helpful tips:
- Arrange elements in a logical order—architectural designs are typically read from left to right and top to bottom.
- Use white space thoughtfully—create a clean, balanced layout that allows your designs to breathe.
- Leverage grids for organization—structure the hierarchy of elements in a grid to ensure consistency in scale and alignment.
- Keep graphic styles consistent—stick to a unified style for fonts, text, and colors.
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