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Augmenting the Digital Review

Research Open House 2021

Jonathan Scelsa
Yalai Pang, BArch ‘20
Liz Bobyr, BArch ‘23
School of Architecture, Undergraduate Architecture

Augmenting the Digital Review serves as an investigation into the use of augmented reality technology within early architectural education, as a means of introducing both historical and contemporary tools of abstract making and seeing.

iPhone Augmentation of an Architectural model.
Research Assistant Yalai Pang demonstrates the use of augmented reality to add additional virtual components to an existing 3D printed model.

The research, which culminated in a summer outreach studio, examines how early education can utilize readily accessible smartphone interfaces to develop connections between digital and physical world-building techniques.

The research builds upon the optic history of architectural perspective drawing towards a new form of abstraction and representation using photogrammetry and augmented reality.

  • Augmented perspective corridor
    A Design Initiative for Community Empowerment (DICE) K–12 student utilizes augmented reality to visualize the space of their designed linear corridor.
  • A digital mixed reality village.
    A DICE K–12 architecture student creates an urban scene in the computer with a photogrammetric scanned model and a series of added digital people and surrounding elements.
  • A mixed reality scene
    A DICE K-12 architecture student presents three models of various mixed reality. One which is physical, one which is a photogrammetric scan of the first reprojected through AR, and a third, which was fabricated in the computer creating a mixed reality scene.