ambientar un dibujo arquitectónico

English translation: add entourage to an architectural drawing

18:21 Jan 4, 2021
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Spanish term or phrase: ambientar un dibujo arquitectónico
I am looking for the translation of «ambientar» and «ambientación».
In architecture, it refers to adding additional details like plants, people, etc., to «dress up» a plan or drawing in order to make it more visually appealing.
Sample sentence:
Aunque no hemos llegado a la parte donde ambientamos nuestro dibujo, colocaremos algunos muebles fijos en el espacio.
Pilar Dueñas
Costa Rica
Local time: 08:29
English translation:add entourage to an architectural drawing
Explanation:
Or, if you're writing for a non-specialist readership, you could just say "people and landscaping".

As architects, we use entourage – here defined as the surroundings of a building, or the parts of a drawing beyond purely architectural information, i.e., people, animals, plants, textures, shadow, and light – to tell the viewer what that space may be like when inhabited.
http://studiomaven.org/Workflow__659647.html

The Architectural Entourage is a collection of digital-born images of people and objects for use in student work. Architecture students refer to these images as “entourage”, and use them to provide scale, depth, human interest and mood in finished architectural renderings and designs
http://oregondigital.org/sets/arch-entourage
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4 +3add entourage to an architectural drawing
philgoddard
4 +2provide a full presentation drawing
Muriel Vasconcellos


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add entourage to an architectural drawing


Explanation:
Or, if you're writing for a non-specialist readership, you could just say "people and landscaping".

As architects, we use entourage – here defined as the surroundings of a building, or the parts of a drawing beyond purely architectural information, i.e., people, animals, plants, textures, shadow, and light – to tell the viewer what that space may be like when inhabited.
http://studiomaven.org/Workflow__659647.html

The Architectural Entourage is a collection of digital-born images of people and objects for use in student work. Architecture students refer to these images as “entourage”, and use them to provide scale, depth, human interest and mood in finished architectural renderings and designs
http://oregondigital.org/sets/arch-entourage

philgoddard
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Asker: Thanks, Phil!


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agree  Décio Adams: Concordo com esta definição. Ambientar é combinar com o ambiente circundante.
2 hrs
  -> Obrigado!

agree  Christian [email protected]: En Venezuela, los arquitectos decíamos "envenenar el plano".
6 hrs

agree  Pablo Waldman
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
provide a full presentation drawing


Explanation:
Here's another option (based on my training in the preparation of design drawings).

See definition from Wikipedia:
Basic presentation drawings typically include people, vehicles and trees, taken from a library of such images, and are otherwise very similar in style to working drawings. Rendering is the art of adding surface textures and shadows to show the visual qualities of a building more realistically. An architectural illustrator or graphic designer may be employed to prepare specialist presentation images, usually perspectives or highly finished site plans, floor plans and elevations etc.

Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 07:29
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agree  Yvonne Gallagher: seems far more idiomatic
1 day 3 hrs
  -> Thank you, Yvonne!

agree  Z-Translations Translator
1 day 19 hrs
  -> Thank you!
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