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Sunlit Structure Deck

When to use

• You're presenting an architecture, interior, or urban-design project and the deck should feel like the building: light, structure, and breathing room
• A competition entry or client pitch needs slides that show how daylight actually moves through the spaces, not just floor plans
• You're presenting a renovation, extension, or public building where orientation, shadow, and material matter more than square footage
• A portfolio review needs one project told as a sequence — site, light, structure, material, experience — rather than a pile of drawings
• You're explaining a structural idea (a frame, a vault, a courtyard) to non-architects and need the deck to make the idea visible

Workflow

1. Read the site's light (input: site, orientation, brief → output: light narrative)
   Start with sun, not plan: orientation, the hours each facade gets direct light, which rooms catch morning versus evening sun, and where shadow falls at midday. Write it as a short narrative — "Morning light enters the east courtyard, crosses the hall by noon, and leaves through the west glazing." This narrative becomes the deck's spine; every later slide answers it. A structure deck without a light story is a catalogue of drawings.
2. Set the structural grid (input: light narrative → output: slide grid + material palette)
   Fix a slide grid that echoes the building's structure: a strong vertical column for section-like slides, generous white space standing in for daylight, and a warm neutral palette (bone, sand, charcoal) that lets one sunlit accent color do all the work. Define how drawings sit on slides — sections full-bleed, plans at half-width with light arrows, photographs as full-bleed pauses. The grid is the building's frame; if a slide breaks it, the break must be deliberate, like a double-height space.
3. Sequence the walk (input: grid + project drawings → output: slide sequence)
   Order the deck as a walk through the building in daylight: site and orientation first, then approach, then the sequence of spaces in the order a visitor meets them, then structure and material detail, then the building at different hours. One idea per slide. Never show a plan, a section, and a render of the same space on one slide — the walk slows down and the eye has nowhere to stand.

Template preview

Sunlit Structure Deck — Template

One building, one light story. Start with the sun, end with the experience.

Project: {name} — {location}

Program: {e.g. house / school / pavilion} | Status: {concept / in progress / built} | Key facts: {area} · {completion year}

Light narrative

• Orientation: {north arrow / facade directions}
• Morning light: {which spaces, which facade}
• Midday shadow: {where shadow falls}
• Evening light: {which spaces, which facade}
• Daylight story (one paragraph): {e.g. Morning light enters the east courtyard, crosses the hall by noon, and leaves through the west glazing.}

Slide grid + palette

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