Invisible Places
Contributors: Julian Rutten, William Ward, Stanislav Roudavski, Mark Burry, Gini Lee, Jeff Malpas, Mark Taylor.
Presented as part of the Place and Parametricism exhibition at Real/Material/Ethereal: The 2nd Annual Design Research Conference at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.
Tags: #place-and-parametricism #place #representation
This project contributes to the discipline of architectural design. It examines the ability of augmented three-dimensional models to represent and extend habitable places. Within this theme, we focus on digital/analogue representations of performative, material/virtual interiors. This investigation seeks to address the gap in the existing knowledge about the cultural capabilities of digital/analogue environments. To address this gap, the project asks: how can interior places be extended into inclusive cultural landscapes? In response to this question we hypothesise that utilisation of digital scanning in combination with interactive digital simulations of events can aid understanding and imaginative amplification of real-world interior places.
The project transposed observes site interactions into digitally scanned environments and recorded or simulated sounds, temperatures, light levels, and other perceptual characteristics. To tests the efficacy of the resulting hybrid environments, the project engaged with characteristic real and imaginary paces that carry strong emotional associations. By displaying the feasibility and constraints of digitally enhanced places, this research contributes to the study of existing and future habitable environments. The project is significant because it demonstrates how virtual amplifications can convey place characteristics by evoking memories, impressions, modes of occupation and sequences of events. Its novel contribution is in the application of the quantitative techniques to these elusive qualitative and subjective aspects.
This recorded work has been selected for the exhibition within the Real/Material/Ethereal: The 2nd Annual Design Research Conference in 2019, the leading disciplinary research forum in Australia. The work is supported by the ARD DP170104010 grant and co-created with leaders in their fields. The publications are forthcoming, and the team are in an active discussion with the curators at the National Gallery of Victoria where this work will form a part of a major exhibition.
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Invisible Places: Photograph of exhibit at the Real/Material/Ethereal conference in Melbourne, Australia. Image by Julian Rutten.
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