Application of an Alternative Teaching Model in a Virtual Architectural Design Studio: Impacts and Constraints

2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 77-84
Author(s):  
Rabee M. Reffat
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Shared Responsibility ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Teaching Model ◽  
Virtual Design ◽  
Alternative Teaching ◽  
3D Virtual Environment ◽  
Architectural Design Studio

This paper introduces an alternative teaching model in a virtual architectural design studio, its application, impacts and constraints. This model aims for achieving collaborative learning through facilitating students to Inhabit, Design, Construct and Evaluate (IDCE) their designs collaboratively in a multi-user real-time 3D virtual environment platform (Activeworlds). The application of this model in virtual design studio (VDS) teaching has favorably impacted students' motivation for active, creative and explorative learning, social dynamics between studio participants. It also fostered learning electronic communication, collaboration techniques and etiquette in addition to design technology. The model assisted in developing collaborative experience and shared responsibility. However, there are some drawbacks of the virtual environment platform that hindered having a responsive design environment to users' needs with especially in modeling and rate of viewing. The advantages and constraints of applying the IDCE teaching model in a multi-user real-time 3D virtual environment for first year students at the University of Sydney are addressed in this paper.

INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF EMPLOYING IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT ON ENHANCING SPATIAL PERCEPTION WITHIN DESIGN PROCESS

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rawan Taisser Abu Alatta ◽  
Ahmed Abdullah Freewan
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Spatial Perception ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Immersive Virtual Environment ◽  
Architectural Design Studio

The recent developments in Information Technology (IT) and digital media have introduced new opportunities to design studio and new dimensions to design and architecture. The current research studies how the immersion of Virtual Reality (VR) in architectural design studio affects spatial perception through the design process. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of using such environments on changing the way how to design for human experience: how it will improve students' spatial understanding of Three Dimensions (3D) volumes, and how it will enhance their imagination, enrich their creativity and promote their ability to experience their design's sensations. This study hypothesizes that using an immersive virtual environment in design studio will empower students' imaginations and give them the ability to understand and experience their ideas. It will give them the opportunity to check their design's validity with greater 3D exploration, understanding and comprehension of spatial volumes.  Within a framework of an experimental design research, a series of experiments was conducted to evaluate what had been assumed.  The research used teaching, monitoring, explanatory observation and evaluation methods. The results showed that VR can not only enhance spatial perception and improve the design, but also it can affect the design process and make changes in the architectural design way of thinking. It can help designers to incorporate human experience within the design process.   

scholarly journals Virtual Reality As A Spatial Experience For Architecture Design: A Study of Effectiveness for Architecture Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 05005
Author(s):  
Luhur Sapto Pamungkas ◽  
Cinthyaningtyas Meytasari ◽  
Hendro Trieddiantoro
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Experimental Method ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Visual Design ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Spatial Experience ◽  
Architectural Design Studio

Studios. This ability gained through visual design thinking. The spatial experience honed by three dimensional thinking from the medium diversity. The spatial experience learned through a room layout, proportion, and composition. This research used an experimental method and the primary data obtained by a “Likert” scale questionnaire. The Respondents are 50 students of the Architectural Design Studio. Moreover, the analysis focuses on the VR for spatial experience. The result was a descriptive explanation of the effectiveness of Virtual Reality for a spatial experience of architecture students at Technology University of Yogyakarta.

scholarly journals INTEGRATION OF REVEALED KNOWLEDGE INTO DESIGN THINKING: AN URBAN DESIGN STUDIO EXPERIMENT

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Ilya Fadjar Maharika
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Reflective Writing ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Architecture Education ◽  
The World ◽  
Architectural Design Studio

<p class="Keywords">Integration of human knowledge principle has been widespread in the world of Islamic education, including in Indonesia. Partially seen as an attempt to build a school of thought of architecture education, the principle opens the discussion on the discursive level of design thinking. This paper reveals an explorative effort to translate the idea into a class experiment in an architectural design studio. This class experimental research uses a content analysis of students’ reflective writing who involve the design process that deliberately begins with the introduction of revealed knowledge (Arabic: <em>wahy</em>) in Architectural Design Studio 7 at the Department of Architecture, Universitas Islam Indonesia. In conclusion, it has formulated a dynamic and multi-dimensional construction of design thinking based on the integration of knowledge</p>

scholarly journals Lifelong Learning in Architectural Design Studio: The Learning Contract Approach

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Hassanpour ◽  
A. I. Che-Ani ◽  
I. M. S. Usman ◽  
S. Johar ◽  
N. M. Tawil
Keyword(s):  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Architectural Design Studio ◽  
Learning Contract

scholarly journals Rethinking the Black Box in Architecture Design Studio

SAGE Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 215824402092740
Author(s):  
Serap Durmus Ozturk
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Semantic Representation ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Formal Representation ◽  
Architectural Production ◽  
Critical Action ◽  
Internal Information ◽  
Architectural Design Studio

Design as a critical action can be defined as a concrete-utilitarian construction process and a state-related symbolic ritual. The process of design is defined by the abstraction area, which is accompanied by abstract forms of representation for the physical environment in a built environment and the response to problems. Black Box is defined as tool, system, or object that in art and science is evaluated by inputs and outputs and does not include any internal information. The Black Box problem, which is part of the architectural design process, has been reconstructed as a critical stance to the closed and implicit architectural production process, supporting open thought to the end but formally designing houses that remain faithful to this black box. Hence, this article is an example of a physical and semantic representation production with an emphasis on design as a critical action and metaphor. This article, which presents the black box problem through a theoretical perspective and architectural design studio examples, focuses on the semantic and formal representation of all conditions of a cube. This aspect aims to provide a creative cross section from the potential of infinite design.

scholarly journals Threshold Approaches to Architectural Design Studio

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 01046
Author(s):  
Ebru Alakavuk
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Theory ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Architecture Design ◽  
Architectural Design Studio ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Student Projects

Threshold is a popular design theory in architecture that can be defined in many ways. One definition is “a barrier space that is located for separating the volumes”. This is “dictionary definition” of the threshold, but in fact this term can has various meanings according to the different perspectives. The threshold can be physical, psychological, emotional, social, economic, etc. definitions. There are many ways of expressing threshold in to architectural design considering the terms mentioned above. In this paper different ways of expressing “threshold” term in to the architectural design is discussed. For this purpose third year architecture design studio is taken as a case study. The student projects by the ways of defining and expressing the threshold term in to design is taken in consideration. The aim of this paper to put forward the integration of various meanings of threshold in to the architectural design by the case studies that are obtained from the architectural design studio.

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