AR/VR Games | Online Workshop | English | Europe-Mideast-Africa
Description:
Mixed Realities ability to conjure ephemeral space at real-time with impactful presence at an urban scale, architecture and architects, might for once get a foot ahead of technology. Architecture might become fast. The expertise of the architect as an image maker and space generator allows architecture to proceed technology and outline their demands.
This workshop speculates on the future of architecture as a profession, questioning its existence within the realm of hybrid spatial realities. Throughout, you will investigate the overlaps between architecture, art, media and content, by developing an urban mixed reality experience for a defined user/user group. Each group will be given a IRL site in which to design their own digital environment which interacts, overlaps, dissolves or integrates with the site. Working throughout, in first-person we will design and implement core interaction systems, scripted using c#, akin to a mobile mixed reality experience. Lastly we will take our projects and visualise them in augmented reality utilising the powerful image tracking and plane tracking capabilities of Wikitude in Unity3D.
The main tools throughout the workshop will be Unity3D and Cinema4D, however, you may use a 3D modelling software you feel most comfortable with and we will try accommodate the very basics of texturing, exporting and importing 3D models.
We will take full advantage of the first-person controller possibilities within unity as a way in which we can prototype and test mixed-reality experiences. The core aim of the workshop is to transfer skills which allow you to question the potentials of a mixed-reality architecture by beginning to outline your own criteria for value and defining guidelines for your own mixed reality architecture.
Key Words:
Augmented Reality,Mixed Reality,Unity3D,c# Scripting
Required Skills:
intermediate level unity3D, intermediate 3D modelling skills (can include but not limited to Rhino, Zbrush, C4D, Blender)
Required Software:
Unity 3D, Visual Studio, Cinema4D, Wikitude SDK (free or edu)
Required Hardware:
Moderately powerful PC/Mac, Android/ iOS mobile device
Maximum number of participating students:
16
This workshop speculates on the future of architecture as a profession, questioning its existence within the realm of hybrid spatial realities. Throughout, you will investigate the overlaps between architecture, art, media and content, by developing an urban mixed reality experience for a defined user/user group. Each group will be given a IRL site in which to design their own digital environment which interacts, overlaps, dissolves or integrates with the site. Working throughout, in first-person we will design and implement core interaction systems, scripted using c#, akin to a mobile mixed reality experience. Lastly we will take our projects and visualise them in augmented reality utilising the powerful image tracking and plane tracking capabilities of Wikitude in Unity3D.
The main tools throughout the workshop will be Unity3D and Cinema4D, however, you may use a 3D modelling software you feel most comfortable with and we will try accommodate the very basics of texturing, exporting and importing 3D models.
We will take full advantage of the first-person controller possibilities within unity as a way in which we can prototype and test mixed-reality experiences. The core aim of the workshop is to transfer skills which allow you to question the potentials of a mixed-reality architecture by beginning to outline your own criteria for value and defining guidelines for your own mixed reality architecture.
Schedule:
Jun 28 - Jul 2
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Day 1 / Jun 28
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Day 2 / Jun 29
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Day 3 / Jun 30
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Day 4 / Jul 1
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Day 5 / Jul 2
Instructors:
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Shaun McCallum iheartblob,co-founderShaun McCallum is a Scottish architectural designer and digital artist whose work investigates the impact of new technologies upon socio-political cultures through ephemeral architectural objects and installations. He received his Bachelor of Architecture, with Distinction, from the University of Dundee before studying at the (Sci-Arc) Southern Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles and graduating with his MArch at Die Angewandte in Studio Greg Lynn. His projects which explore the accessibility and integration of digital technologies within existing physical structures have received a variety of awards and have been published internationally. As a researcher, Shaun has served as a travel fellow in China investigating the interplay of mystical historical ruins juxtaposed with new consumer lead architectural objects and under occupied mega cities. With his interests in hybridised realities Shaun has taught workshops on augmented reality and virtual reality through experimental workflows. -
Sasha Belitskaja iheartblob,co-founderSasha Belitskaja is an Estonian architectural designer, co-founder of iheartblob and an XR developer whose work centres on novel interactive design models and the interplay of new emergent aesthetics. Her experimental work and proposals have been published internationally. Sasha has taught workshops on building dynamic spatial conditions through custom built game design environments and experimental 3D modelling softwares. Throughout her professional architecture career, Sasha has worked for award winning internationally-known innovative offices in Stuttgart, London, Vienna and Los Angeles.