3D-visualization of residential buildings in Manstorp

Abstract: In real estate ads in both newspapers and on the Internet, there are more and more computer modeled houses for sale. We believe that this is one of the biggest markets for visualization today. When time and technology are ready, we expect that visualization will be used a lot more to create projects where people can “trust” in what is being visualized. For our final thesis we wanted to work with Visualization, our concentration within the Construction Engineering program at Linköping University. We managed to do this with the construction company Peab in Linköping, who wanted to make their marketing of their project Manstorp in Linghem more efficient. The pictures that the hired architect firm used to visualize the property with were not sufficient enough, according to Peab, in giving the true picture of the area. The goal for our thesis was to create more realistic and living images, and thereby help Peab sell all of the real estates before completing the constructions. We were continuously given material from Peab and the architect firm White in order to visualize a realistic set of pictures for potential clients. One of computer visualizations biggest advantages is that it is easy to modify the models according to changes in the material given. Compared to classic design methods such as hand-drawn sketches, physical models and computer manipulated pictures it was easy for us to change features such as color, displacement and size. We wanted to show how the cooperation between people who visualizes, construction companies and architects could work, where problems could evolve and which solutions and methods are to be preferred. The goal was to create a model of the exterior and interior of the individual buildings in their final environment and display this with pictures on Peab’s and the real estate agent’s website. We achieved this goal and the result can be seen at: http://www.peab.se/Bostader_lokaler/Bostader/ostergotland/Linkoping/Manstorp