VIARMODES: Visualization and Interaction in Immersive Virtual Reality for Architectural Design Process

Coroado, Luís; Pedro, Tiago; Dias, Miguel Sales

doi:10.52842/conf.ecaade.2015.1.125

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“…Having used a number of these methods, as the collateral documents, we founded our user-study mainly on immersing participants in the virtual environment, using the Virtual Reality (VR) technology. It is acknowledged as a powerful tool for modeling and data visualization, and there is a growing demand for such a cutting-edge technology in architecture for various goals; as a tool for representation, design development, evaluation and analysis, [46][47][48] education, 49,50 and data visualization at urban scale. [51][52][53] Upon receiving a human ethics certification, and with no recruiting criteria in terms of gender, demographic breakdown, prerequisite skills, etc., we invited the first 20 volunteers for the study.…”

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Optically illusive architecture (OIA): Introduction and evaluation using virtual reality

Hosseini

Alim

Oehlberg

et al. 2021

International Journal of Architectural Computing

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Architects and designers communicate their ideas within a range of representational methods. No single instance of these methods, either in the form of orthographic projections or perspectival representation, can address all questions regarding the design, but as a whole, they demonstrate a comprehensive range of information about the building or object they intend to represent. This explicates an inevitable degree of deficiency in representation, regardless of its type. In addition, perspective-based optical illusions manipulate our spatial perception by deliberately misrepresenting the reality. In this regard, they are not new concepts to architectural representation. As a consequence, Optically Illusive Architecture (OIA) is proposed, not as a solution to fill the gap between the representing and represented spaces, but as a design paradigm whose concept derives from and accounts for this gap. By OIA we aim to cast light to an undeniable role of viewpoints in designing architectural spaces. The idea is to establish a methodology in a way that the deficiency of current representational techniques—manifested as specific thread of optical illusions—flourishes into thoughtful results embodied as actual architectural spaces. Within our design paradigm, we define a framework to be able to effectively analyze its precedents, generate new space, and evaluate their efficiencies. Moreover, the framework raises a hierarchical set of questions to differentiate OIA from a visual gimmick. Furthermore, we study two OIA-driven environments, by conducting empirical studies using Virtual Reality (VR). These studies bear essential information, in terms of design performance, and the public’s ability to engage and interact with an OIA space, prior to the actual fabrication of the structures.

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Optically illusive architecture (OIA): Introduction and evaluation using virtual reality

Hosseini

Alim

Oehlberg

et al. 2021

International Journal of Architectural Computing

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“…The hypothesis was that VR enhances the design ideas designers' included in their design and their perceived connection with nature. Immersive virtual reality creates a platform that allows designers and design participants to see ICED23 and hear environments in a new way compared to traditional two-dimensional drawings, which will influence what and how they design (Coroado, 2015;Wang et al, 2018).…”

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“…Virtual reality (VR) enables designers and stakeholders to interact with the design at scale and has been increasingly utilized in the detailed design process within the last five years. VR provides an accessible vehicle, especially for the design of the built environment for architects, engineers, contractors, and the public to visually see design ideas about large physical systems and buildings before they are built (Coroado, 2015;Ma et al, 2020;Makarova et al, 2015). The use of VR in the design of the built environment is primarily used during the detailed design phase, where the ability to ideate and make changes is much lower than during the conceptual design phase.…”

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Effects of Embodied and Self-Reflected Virtual Reality on Engineering Students’ Design Cognition About Nature

Trump,

Shealy

2023

Proc. Des. Soc.

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The study presented in this paper investigated the impact of embodied and self-reflected virtual reality (VR) experiences on engineering design students' cognition and perception of nature-relatedness during the early conceptual design phase. Results showed that students who explored the design environment as a bird (embodied) or human (self) avatar were significantly more likely to explore a larger design space indicated by more semantically unique design concepts compared to students without the VR experience. Network graphs of the syntactic connection of design concepts revealed notable differences among the three groups. The bird avatar group showed more connections to nature-related and social concepts, while more technical concepts were central for the human avatar group, and concepts about money were more central to the control group. Finally, students who embodied the bird avatar had a significantly stronger perception of connection to nature compared to the human avatar and control group, with a small to medium effect size. The results suggest that embodied (as a bird) and self-reflected (as a human) VR experiences can enhance engineering students' design thinking and perception of connection to nature.

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Developing a visually impaired older people Virtual Reality (VR) simulator to apply VR in the aged living design workflow

Zhang

Codinhoto

2020

2020 24th International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)

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VIARMODES: Visualization and Interaction in Immersive Virtual Reality for Architectural Design Process

Cited by 6 publications

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Optically illusive architecture (OIA): Introduction and evaluation using virtual reality

Optically illusive architecture (OIA): Introduction and evaluation using virtual reality

Effects of Embodied and Self-Reflected Virtual Reality on Engineering Students’ Design Cognition About Nature

Developing a visually impaired older people Virtual Reality (VR) simulator to apply VR in the aged living design workflow

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