Immersive Variations: Connecting Architectural Sensitivity with Parametric Design through Collaborative Virtual Reality Environments

Immersive Variations: Connecting Architectural Sensitivity with Parametric Design through Collaborative Virtual Reality Environments

Banda-Pérez, Pablo; Valenzuela-Astudillo, Eduardo

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Undergraduate design studies for digital fabrication and non-standard architecture are complex as their participants are usually far from systems thinking and have a basic level of confidence in the use of advanced digital tools. Furthermore, in the face of high formal complexity, the understanding of the structural system and its effects for the inhabitant are not evident. This work presents an implementation of Virtual Reality to introduce Latin American architecture university students to digital fabrication and parametric design, taking as its main premise that during the initial design stage, the designed architecture using virtual reality techniques and spatial perception can engage students to appreciate the value in these new designs, formulating new arguments and paradigms to further contribute to their training as contemporary professionals

Undergraduate design studies for digital fabrication and non-standard architecture are complex as their participants are usually far from systems thinking and have a basic level of confidence in the use of advanced digital tools. Furthermore, in the face of high formal complexity, the understanding of the structural system and its effects for the inhabitant are not evident. This work presents an implementation of Virtual Reality to introduce Latin American architecture university students to digital fabrication and parametric design, taking as its main premise that during the initial design stage, the designed architecture using virtual reality techniques and spatial perception can engage students to appreciate the value in these new designs, formulating new arguments and paradigms to further contribute to their training as contemporary professionals

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DOI: 10.5151/sigradi2021-375

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Banda-Pérez, Pablo; Valenzuela-Astudillo, Eduardo; "Immersive Variations: Connecting Architectural Sensitivity with Parametric Design through Collaborative Virtual Reality Environments", p-1017-1028. In: XXV International Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics. São Paulo: Blucher, 2021.
ISSN 23186968, DOI 10.5151/sigradi2021-375