Having seen many people recommend SketchUp for building renders of their plans, I signed up for a free trial and set about learning how to use it over the weekend. It has been a challenge but I managed to get some reasonable representations of the plans.
It has been fun to work with the traditional 2D birdseye view plans but I was hoping we’d be able to translate them into something more relatable. I’ve not gone to the trouble of designing gardens and such so it is pretty much just the buildings and a very green lawn. It also looks like the site is surrounded by sea but I think it has helped to get a little taster of how things could look.