ASCAAD 2007: Embodying Virtual Architecture

The increasing speed of technological improvements outpaced many design issues. Nowadays, architecture is accepting digital design tools and technologies as a feature integrated in design process and in spaces of our everyday “Being-in-the-World”. The consequences of this integration result in many changing and expanding forms of interaction.

Space features prominently in narratives about everyday life, modulated by the spread of digital media to create ever-expanding narratives of communication, containment, boundaries, thresholds, and transgressions.

Interactive digital media enables advanced investigation on themes of embodiment and perception by providing an excellent means of testing, comparing, validating and challenging theories about perception. Virtual architecture introduces an interesting mode of interaction deploying space as a major metaphor. The capability of creating a 3D virtual world and filling it with artefacts from our more familiar environments is possible due to the ever increasing power of computer processing.

In a sense the theme of this conference examines two particular metaphors. The first metaphor addresses aspects of virtual environments that resemble our physical world; In other words, the computer model as physical model and the digital world as material world. The second metaphor looks into the means of interaction and modes between our bodies and such virtual environment.

Topics of Interest:

• The conference encourages submission of papers on topics including but not limited to the following:
• 3D/4D Modelling Systems
• Building Information Modelling (BIM)
• CAAD Curriculum: education, research and practice
• Creative Visualisation
• Design Methods and Representations
• Digital Design Tools
• Future Virtual Design and Construction
• GIS in Architecture
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Information Visualization
• Intelligent Design and Case Reasoning
• Mass Customisation
• Revolutionary Architecture and Generative Form
• Simulation and Virtual Prototyping
• Synthetic Methods of 3D Visualisation
• Tools for Collaborative Design
• Urban City Modelling
• Virtual Environment and Knowledge Management
• Virtual Architecture
• Virtual Reality
• Web-Based Design and Networking