Architectural Rendering & Vizualization: Essential things to know in design school

Architectural Rendering & Vizualization: Essential things to know in design school

Architecture visualizations: Getting your idea across

A great visual that is stunning and captivating goes a long way to convincing your critique panel about your scheme, however dubious. In the digital age, most students would be working with computers. So, what are the various tools out there on the market available to a struggling architectural student?

Google Sketchup

This is a gift from heaven. Sketchup is the most simple, easily available 3d modeling program available that has a gentle learning curve. Although it is not possible to do really crazy stuff, it trumps all the others with it's easy intuitive graphical user interface and simple to use functions. Not only that, with google sketchup warehouse, you can download plenty of readymade 3d models of everything conceivable.

With millions of users worldwide and an active community forum to solve any troubleshooting issues, sketchup should be one of the first programs to consider learning. In addition, there is a whole host of scripts available to simplify the modeling process which are written on the ruby platform and are freely available.

Sketchup easily would form the backbone of any design workflow and also as the most direct way to create your base model for export to other rendering engines to create that to die for render. From sketchup itself, it's already possible to export some sketchy stylistic images for further work in Photoshop if you so desire.

Else, now that you've created the scene with all that 3d Model, it's time to export it to a rendering engine to create that photorealistic visual to blow everyone away. From sketchup, there are a few programs which are commonly used.

Rendering Programs

Sure it's great to be able to use 3dMax and other professional rendering suites, by hey, do you really need to know all that. I've personally tried to learn 3dMax but it's really quite a pain. It's simply not straightforward enough. Why can't I have a program that will take my sketchup model, and with a click of a button, transform what I see in sketchup directly into a photo realistic render without much fuss? For all the design students who ain't really that good with computers, fret not.

There ARE such programs around. And best of all, there are FREE ones.

Kerkythea Rendering Engine

Kerkythea is a freeware rendering engine that works with sketchup with minimal fuss. With a plugin, it'll export all the material and lighting settings along with the views to a xml file to be loaded in Kerkythea.

If you so desire, simply click render and hey, you've got yourself a pretty decent render without fiddling with the settings. Very cool, and very nice.

Kerkythea renders up to any image size that you so desire and I used it throughout my entire architecture education as the mainstay rendering engine.

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