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Making excellent presentations about urban design is in and of itself an art form. Because a bad presentation can permanently bury a brilliant idea, regardless of its originality. It entails convincing a potential customer that it is their best choice. Now, this might seem a little too challenging, but it’s really not. Actually, creating a good presentation is more like adhering to a formula that ensures excellent results.
In this article, you can read out about tried-and-true methods to improve your urban design presentations.
Representing Mapping
To reflect your design concept and effectively convey the specifics and key elements of the scheme, your presentation board must have both text and graphics. When creating maps, it’s crucial to be efficient and utilise exactly what’s required to get your point through. Quality is preferable than quantity because the latter can cause confusion. Consider how simple or complex the idea, key components, and core ideas of the scheme are to understand when you approach your project from scratch.
Bring your work together as a cohesive group of drawings in a format, scale, and style that complement one another to produce a logical and thorough understanding of the project. Lack of clarity and misunderstanding can result from inconsistent visual styles.
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Structure of the presentation board
Take some time to plan out your layout before you begin making your presentation boards. What is it that you hope to say? What kinds of pictures or sketches must you submit as part of your evaluation? What do you want people to take away from your design?
Information gathering, including making a list of all the images to be featured and the text you would like to place on them, is the first step in arranging the layout of your boards. This will be a great aid in imagining the content of your boards and the means through which you will convey your design.
Orientation, setting and size
Are there any restrictions on how your presentation boards must be oriented? Make sure you are aware of whether your boards should be shown in portrait or landscape format.
If you are unsure whether this is something you should think about, examine how the boards will be viewed and whether they will be displayed in a succession so they build on one another.
What dimensions will your presentation boards have? Make sure you are aware of any board size restrictions.
Layout of the presentation board
To assist you in organising the visual components on your board, think about employing a grid. Use a straightforward grid or something more intricate. You can organise the pieces on your page and create uniformity throughout the collection of architecture presentation boards by using a grid.
You may start making a grid that meets your needs once you’ve chosen your page size and orientation. Title bars, page numbers, and other information that must appear on each board can be included in the grid. It’s fantastic to use a programme like InDesign because you can set up master pages as templates, requiring just one grid creation to be utilised on many pages.
Presentation Board Essentials
Well, that’s complicated, because it depends on the results you’ve achieved and the specifications of the project brief. Therefore, pick the pictures and sketches that best illustrate your design. What information would you need to see in this project’s initial presentation in order to grasp its significance?
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Information – Title, story, content
Does having a title bar matter? If so, think about using a title bar that is the same throughout all of your boards to give them a professional and organised appearance. Don’t forget to provide your contact information, including your name, project title, and any other pertinent information.
It can be tempting to use too many fonts, but please resist the urge! Limit yourself to no more than two fonts. Create a hierarchy using font sizes by using huge font for titles, somewhat smaller for subtitles, and regular size for the rest of your text. Make sure the font and size you choose are readable! Keep your phrases succinct and to the point. An essay on your presentation board won’t be something anyone wants to read. An image is worth a thousand words.
Think about the text box’s text alignment. What can I read more easily? Consider how word spacing, hyphenation, and other formatting will look on your presentation board for architecture. 12 point text on A1 paper is the same size as 12 point text on A4 (or Letter)
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Use of Nagative Space
Use negative space. Don’t fill your board with useless information, use the negative space to set off your design and make it stand out.
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Use of Isometric and Axonometric views
An axonometric perspective, also called parallel projection or axonometry, is an orthographic projection on an oblique plane as a means of representing three-dimensional objects. It is a very efficient way to illustrate a project since it can represent not only conceptual schemes but also construction details in a very didactic style. It allows us to change the position of the viewer when rotating the axes and thus generating several visual combinations of the design, that can help answer any questions the contractor or client may have.
Isometric drawings are a powerful tool for visually communicating complex spatial arrangements. Their unique viewpoint allows for highly descriptive drawings that represent three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface.
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Use of Planometric drawing
A planometric drawing is a type of three dimensional drawing that includes an accurate ‘plan view’ or top view of a single plane, like a floor plan. The planometric view is a “parallel projection” system. All of the parallel projection systems (isometric, axonometric, and planometric) do not depict how objects appear to get smaller as they move further from the viewer. A ‘perspective projection’ of parallel lines shows them gradually converging until they touch at a ‘vanishing point’. Parallel lines in parallel projections are depicted as parallel.
Planometric drawings are used to show that depth exists but to leave the plan view unaltered. I once saw a map of a museum that used a planometric view so each gallery was displayed to scale and with nothing obscured.
Use of perspective section
The perspective section is an increasingly popular form of architectural representation, one that is most commonly used in architectural competitions since it allows a technical drawing to be mixed with an image, a section which allows one to easily express the qualities of the space designed in a two-dimensional drawing. Below, we have put together a selection of impressive perspective sections ranging from a realistic aesthetic to a line drawing by hand.
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Use ofIsometric Perspective for design development
Isometric diagrams in architecture, landscape, and urban studies are a wonderful tool that help reveal spatial relationships without adding too much decorative details. Simply put, isometric drawings are informative, yet pleasantly abstract.
Use of good digital resources
The selection of the best digital resources such as trees, landscaping and streetscaping elements, human cutouts, clouds etc also plays a very important role in making your urban design presentation board excellent. You can view numerous digital resources on UDL Digital Resource portal. UDL Digital Resources is an online repository containing everything an architect or designer needs for their design. Finding the right PNGs is a lengthy process, made even more so when they must then be placed and given the proper lighting and color to blend into the drawing. When combined with the appropriate presentation tools, cut-out people create an illustration narrative and establish a relationship and connection between the viewer and the location and space. We’ve compiled a list of the best products for which you can use in commercial, academic, and research projects.
Enhance your representation skills
The success of urban design presentations increases the success of the projects and you can show your projects much better with a good presentation. Otherwise, if your presentations are not successful, your projects will not be perceived as perfect, even if they are perfect and complete. To enhance your presentation skills, Urban design la in collaboration with experienced moderators, over the due course of time has brought multiple intriguing workshops that integrate 3D visualization, urban analysis and mapping techniques that enables the participants to not only represent two dimensional drawings, but also to visualize three dimensional renders.
The live hands-on masterclasses integrate multiple software such as Sketch-up, 3ds Max, Illustrator, Autodesk Sketchbook, Procreate etc., where the participants are made familiar with the secrets of the designing, modelling, rendering and Post-Production processes.
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| 1 | Introduction Questions of the day: What is urban design? What is urban development? How are they connected and how do they affect our lives? | |
| 2 | Ways of Seeing the City ( ) Questions of the day: What are the visible signs of change in cities? How can we measure the form of cities? How do the underlying values of the observer influence what is observed? | |
| 3 | The Forces That Made Boston ( ) Questions of the day: What does the history of Boston’s development tell us about the issues facing the city today? Are these forces common to all cities? | |
| 4 | Walking Tour of Boston Meet at the Government Center T-Stop (outside in front of the City Hall) at 8:00 am. For those students who can’t join the tour until 10:30 - we will be in the Skywalk of the Prudential Center Tower (800 Boylston Street between Exeter and Gloucester Streets) at approximately 10:30 am. We will end the tour at noon at South Station Quincy Market where you can have lunch and/or catch a train back to MIT. | |
| 5 | The Design of American Cities ( ) Questions of the day: What can you tell about a city’s origins from its founders? What is the difference between agrarian settlements and industrial cities? What happened to cities as America industrialized? | |
| 6 | The Industrial City and Its Critics ( ) Questions of the day: What were nineteenth century and early twentieth century housing and workplace reformers trying to reform? Do we still have company towns? | |
| 7 | Development Controls Part I: The Institutionalization of Planning and Zoning ( ) Questions of the day: Can we design cities without designing buildings? How can zoning and other design controls improve our public space? | |
| 8 | Development Controls Part II: Beyond Zoning: Urban Design Guidelines, Design Review and Development Incentives ( ) Questions of the day: What is the relationship between development incentives and quality public space? Can urban design guidelines and design review ensure good urban design? What are the newest development controls used by planners? | |
| 9 | Three Urban Utopias: ( ) - Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City - Le Corbusier’s Radiant City - Frank Lloyd Wright’s Broadacre City Questions of the day: What assumptions does each thinker make about how people should live in cities? What beliefs does each hold about the relationship between city design and social change? What aspects of these “utopias” have actually come to pass? | |
| 10 | New Towns in the United States and Abroad ( ) Question of the day: What motivates planners to design new towns? | |
| 11 | The Suburbs Part I: The Origins and Growth of Suburbs ( ) Questions of the day: Why do we have suburbs? How and why do the designs of new suburbs differ from the designs of older ones? | |
| 12 | The Suburbs Part II: Rethinking American Suburbs ( ) Questions of the day: How do “urbanism” and “suburbanism” differ as “ways of life”? What is the appeal of small town life, and can this be designed? | |
| 13 | Shaping Private Development/Growth Management ( ) Questions of the day: What are the social consequences of sprawl? Can private development be controlled to manage growth on the regional scale? What are the current techniques used to manage growth? Guest speaker: Westwood, MA town officials and Cabot, Cabot & Forbes representative - developers for new TOD in former industrial park along the Westwood commuter rail line. | |
| 14 | Midterm Exam | |
| 15 | Urban Renewal and Its Critics ( ) Questions of the day: When does a “neighborhood” become a “slum”? How does one achieve a balance between “renewal” and “preservation”? | |
| 16 | The Tumult of American Public Housing Question of the day: What does urban design have to do with the problems of American public housing? Guest speaker: Professor Lawrence J. Vale | |
| 17 | Cultural Districts, Heritage Areas and Tourism: If You Name It, Will They Come? ( ) Question of the day: How can urban designers, developers and planners create new economic value for historic places and the inner city? | |
| 18 | Discussion of Exercise 2 | |
| 19 | Downtown Development and the Privatization of Public Space Question of the day: Is ‘Public Space’ being ‘Privatized’? | |
| 20 | Landscape, the Environment and the City Questions of the day: How has concern for the landscape, open space, environment and quality of life shaped cities? Can cities be truly “green”? Guest speaker: Thomas Oles | |
| 21 | Natural Processes Guest speaker: Thomas Oles | |
| 22 | Transportation and Its Impacts Question of the day: How has public transportation policy shaped urban form? | |
| 23 | The Rise of Community Activism Questions of the day: How has community participation changed urban design and development? Can urban development be a force for social equity? Guest speaker: Lizbeth Heyer, Associate Director of Community Development, Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation. | |
| 24 | The Virtual City Question of the day: How have advances in telecommunications technology changed the way we use and conceive cities? Guest speaker: Dennis Frenchman | |
| 25 | The Secure City - The Fortification of Space ( ) Question of the day: How are concerns about safety and security shaping public space and redefining communities? | |
| 26 | Discussion of Final Paper | |
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