Using the Unreal Engine 5.0, we can create highly immersive and detailed virtual worlds with stunning graphics and realistic physics. With the ability to render and generate animations, we can bring virtual worlds to life, creating engaging and interactive experiences for a wide range of applications, from video games to architectural visualizations.
UCLA Fall: Augmented Reality Behavior
This past fall, Anyone Corporation (most notable for their journal Log) presented an exhibit titled Model Behavior. The director of Anyone Corporation, Cynthia Davidson said that “Models, whether physical or digital, are intrinsic to architecture. Just as other fields, such as science, mathematics, politics, and economics use models to visualize, reflect, and predict behaviors, so do architectural models…Model Behavior interrogates how architectural models elicit and project social behaviors. Objects on view represent a multitude of disciplines ranging from toys and scientific models to traditional physical architectural models.”1 Among model types investigated is augmented reality (AR), which is represented by wa.k studio’s 4 Square House model. The AR portion of the model allows users to change light and season, use a camera clipping plane to cut an angled section, as well as view the house’s inhabitants: a tree and animated agent.
Grasshopper is a powerful tool for creating parametric Digital Fabrication models that can be customized by adjusting various parameters to achieve the desired outcome. This flexibility allows designers and architects to iterate quickly and efficiently, exploring multiple design options and variations until they arrive at the optimal solution.
Artifical Intelligence in Mapping
Artificial Intelligence has revolutionized many industries, and architecture is no exception. In fact, some parts of this passage was generated by chatGPT, a trained model for conversation.
With the help of AI, architects and designers can now generate and visualize building designs in a fraction of the time it would have taken with traditional methods. One of the most promising applications of AI in architecture is the generation of images to guide design and building generation. By training AI algorithms on large datasets of architectural images and designs, researchers have been able to teach these algorithms to generate new images that capture the key features of different architectural styles, such as Gothic or Art Deco. These generated images can then be used to guide the design process, providing architects and designers with a source of inspiration and a starting point for their own creative ideas. In this way, AI is not replacing architects or designers, but rather empowering them to work more efficiently and effectively, pushing the boundaries of what is possible in architectural design and building generation.
