Abstract:
Visualization techniques in architecture have been utilized as communication
and design tools since antiquity. Traditional artist force interaction by creating
familiarity within the art for an observer, by understanding and utilizing
methods such as; line, shape, form, texture, and pattern and color to create
a composition. Enhancing such techniques creates a more realistic and
familiar understanding of images and space depicted within art. Art/Design
in collaboration with modern technology advances, have resulted in Virtual
Reality (VR) Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality. All of which are cutting
edge approaches to immersion and interaction. Being a computer generated
a form of visualization Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality
are developing new methods to enhance one's understanding of design and
spatial communication. Virtual Reality specifically offers a first-hand experience
by placing its audience in an interactive virtual environment which familiarity
is promoted to aid design exploration and visualization, the simulation that
virtual reality creates can be abstract or very similar to the real world. Virtual
Reality may be a tool that can promote and aid design and architectural
exploration while also deepen our understanding of other practices. This thesis
aims to explore how virtual reality can improve and build upon architectural
visualization as a communication medium and design tool.
