Visual Communication

In construction engineering, the majority of visual communication takes place via site plans and drawings. There are many different types of software that can be used to design buildings and other construction projects, but all are similar in the fact that they include every detail of a project, including the smallest intricacies. These plans, like the Miami ball park I’ve posted, show the big picture and layout of an entire project. If you were to open this document on the proper program, you would be able to zoom and select different parts of the build, and see what the makeup is. With access to these plans, you would be able to see what sizes of doors go where, the exact footage of flooring, and anything else that might need to be known about a build.  The creators of these drawings are trying to convey a means of common understanding, and provide a base at which supervisors and contractors can quickly and easily refer back to in search of answers. Once the plans and drawings are completed and approved, they are used daily to complete the build process.

             In this particular case, the sky view over the entire completed park is shown. I think the audience for this drawing might have been the clients or the people that wanted to create a new stadium for the Miami Marlins. I believe this is so because it shows the entire layout and what the final project will generally look like. It doesn’t include any exact numbers for distances and types of products used in the actual build. To me, this looks more like a proposal from a firm to the owner of the Marlins saying, “We can build you a stadium like this, for this amount of money in this amount of time.” As you can see, it also includes small labels on specific parts or sections of the park, which in the builder’s plans would not be labeled so well due to symbolism. The biggest hint that makes me think this is the drawing of the proposal is the lack of quantitative detail, and the flashiness and high quality of the drawing, which looks like it would be used to entice the owner to pick this firm to build the Miami Marlins Stadium.