Author(s): Seher Erdo千an Ford
With the advent of new digital media technologies offering immersive virtual environments have emerged new modes of architectural representation. How, in turn, can these technologies shape the less visible, and visual, aspects of architectural production? This paper considers such digital, immersive technologies as Mixed, Virtual, and Augmented Reality within the historical and theoretical context of digital media to better understand their function in charting a frontier for the three dimensional representation of architecture. I propose the notion of the hypermodel, a 鈥渉ypertext version鈥 of digital models that contains and 鈥渙pens up鈥 to more than the physical parts of a building. Hypermodel is a connector of digital space and the physical world鈥攔epresented via multiple forms of media鈥攔evealing the temporal expanse and informational depth of the virtual beyond the bounds of an architectural artifact. In this sense, the new medium also hints at and allows for novel collaborative methods. The new language of design and communication at work in the mixed reality medium is itself interconnected鈥攊t reflects and reinforces the inter-disciplinary and inter-media nature of architectural production today.
Volume Editors
John Folan & Julie Ju-Youn Kim
ISBN
978-1-944214-13-5