Simulated Environments. 3 credits, 3 contact hours

Catalog description

Prerequisites: DD 263 , DD 264 or ARCH 295 . Pre or Corequisites: DD 275 . Restrictions: Digital Design majors only, all others with permission of the department. This course will explore the application of desktop, non-immersive virtual reality to the representation of architecture. Course exercises and projects are designed to uncover both advantages and limitations of this emerging technology, on both practical and theoretical levels. The major focus of the course will be personal evaluation of these tools in the design of both object-specific and the spatial in architectural problem solving. The collaborative nature of the toolkit will inform design decisions vis-a-vis observation of participant behavior and open discussion with interactive critics.