Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Architectural visualizations

[CJ Q (homeschoolvideo]

Emerson Commons has a virtual 3D towards the bottom of this page. It is
neat to see what it looks like versus reality but it pretty much matched up.
There are a few units for sale and new ones to be built if anyone is
interested. Some aren't up on the website yet.
https://www.emersoncommons.org/about-our-community.html

On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 8:45 AM Scott Drennan <scottd [at] pobox.com> wrote:

> Hi Fred,
>
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 8:57 AM Fred H Olson <fholson [at] cohousing.org>
> wrote:
>
> > ...
> > I wonder if any proposed cohousing communities have used such
> > services or how much they have created graphics to help potential
> > members imagine the proposed community.
> > ...
>
>
> That's a really good question, and something our marketing team spent a lot
> of time thinking about. Often visualizations are something your
> architecture firm will include in the contract, but ours didn't, and in
> some ways I think that's a good thing. It prompted us to develop our own
> marketing illustrations for the website early on, and as the design got
> more defined we got more elaborate.
>
> We hired a 3D artist to create models (
> https://treehousevillage.ca/status/
> ) and a fly-through ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6V5BxTl0rY ) which
> we used on our website, I think to good effect. There are some inaccuracies
> (more concrete and less green in a number of places, some architectural
> inconsistencies) but this provided a good flavour. Total cost was under
> $5,000 CAD ($4000 USD) for someone local to us - we didn't look into
> pricing for any of the Internet-only offerings.
>
> If I were to do it again, I'd be tempted to do more modelling earlier, and
> be prepared to update it as the design evolves. Tools like
> https://www.sketchup.com offer free and low-cost entries to 3D modelling,
> and it's possible for amateurs to do some pretty impressive work, then hand
> off to professionals for things like a 3D fly-through.
>
> cheers,
> Scott
> Treehouse Village Ecohousing
> Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Canada
> (Under construction)
> https://treehousevillage.ca
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