Year: 2024
Project type: 8 ECTS Seminar
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Faculty: Gabrielė Jurevičiūtė, Daniil Koshelyuk
Faculty Assistant: Victor Engelhard Suarez
Students: Aastha Agrawal, Afham Aravassery Habeeb, Atakan Çolak, Chanakan Chormai, Dana El Hajjar, Divya Gogia, Dounia Moujahid, Joshua Oates, Keerthana Reddy Devaraj, Mehrnaz Arshad Beiramabad, Rishiraj, Sayed Salahuddin, Shuotong Zhang, Simran Aroraa, Tanvi Sawant, Vivek Venkateshappa
Project type: 8 ECTS Seminar
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Faculty: Gabrielė Jurevičiūtė, Daniil Koshelyuk
Faculty Assistant: Victor Engelhard Suarez
Students: Aastha Agrawal, Afham Aravassery Habeeb, Atakan Çolak, Chanakan Chormai, Dana El Hajjar, Divya Gogia, Dounia Moujahid, Joshua Oates, Keerthana Reddy Devaraj, Mehrnaz Arshad Beiramabad, Rishiraj, Sayed Salahuddin, Shuotong Zhang, Simran Aroraa, Tanvi Sawant, Vivek Venkateshappa
The seminar focused on integrating Mixed Reality (MR) technologies into architectural workflows to enhance precision, variability, and communication in design. By leveraging computational tools and Augmented Reality (AR), students explored innovative methods for bridging the gap between physical and digital worlds. The course addressed challenges such as rigid design constraints, emphasising the role of AR in assisting the construction processes, visualisation, ideation, and fabrication.
The seminar was divided into two distinct parts. During the first part of the seminar students worked in 5 groups of 3-4 students, and gained foundational knowledge on how to use the Unity platform for creating custom AR tools, interfaces and apps, which were then applied to various fabrication scenarios and demonstrated during the interactive final presentations. During the second part of the seminar, students teamed up to collaborate on one project that required large-scale prototyping, using HoloLens 2 to solve challenges that would otherwise demand highly technical solutions and tedious time consuming processes. This approach demonstrated the potential of MR technologies to simplify complex workflows, save time, and expand possibilities in architecture.