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Beyond Flat Space: Representing Architecture In Virtual Reality, Holden Holley
Beyond Flat Space: Representing Architecture In Virtual Reality, Holden Holley
Bachelor of Architecture Theses - 5th Year
As architects, most of us go through years of training and experience just to read and draw plans, sections, and elevations. As students, we are taught how to read a plan and dissect the information we need to understand the spatial relationships. There are many times, however, that a plan doesn’t really tell us what experiencing this space is like. And how is the untrained client supposed to understand how this space really works? Isn’t that our job as architects, to represent our designs well enough to our clients that we communicate to them everything necessary for understanding this space …
Parametric Tools In The Design Process, Robert B. Marcalow
Parametric Tools In The Design Process, Robert B. Marcalow
Masters Theses
The recent revolution in digital design tools is having a sea-change effect on the way buildings are designed. As the design process becomes increasingly automated, the focus of architectural expertise is shifting from the execution of drawings to the parametric definition of space and form. In other words, the architect will define a complex set of rules that, when entered into a program, create a building. This design process, coupled with digital fabrication, allows for control of the final product in ways that were previously impossible for designers. However, there is still much to learn about the ways these new …