Evaluating Architecture and Urban Spaces
Project information
Submitted by
Saskia Kuliga
Co-AuthorsVertr.-Prof. Sven Schneider, Dr. phil. Saskia Kuliga, Prof. Dr. Dirk Donath
MentorsVertr.-Prof. Sven Schneider, Dr. phil. Saskia Kuliga
Summer semester 2017
Faculty:
Architecture and Urbanism
Degree programme:
Architecture (Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)),
Architecture (Master of Science (M.Sc.))
Master project
This project is a research project.
Project description
Architecture, media architecture and computer science students at InfAR evaluate how people perceive, experience, behave in and make decisions in built urban and interior spaces.
In the summer semester 2017, Paulina Radaczewska examines in her master thesis, whether urban spaces are perceived differently in virtual reality, when other people are present, or absent. In the winter semester 16/17, she had already conducted a free project, with observation of use and citizens' subjective environmental appraisal at Sankt-Jakobs-Platz in München.
In the winter semester 16/17, René Weiser and Bogdan Shevchenko used a Deutsche Bahn train station as case study in the virtual reality laboratory. They systematically varied the position of an “information point”, where travellers acquire information about trains and locations and found that visibility plays an important role.
Virtual reality simulations hold much potential for examining buildings prior to occupancy ("pre-occupancy evaluation"), rather than when the building is already constructed (post-occupancy evaluation). Saskia Kuliga examines this in her Bauhaus PostDoc scholarship.
Students who are interested in a bachelor/master thesis or a free semester project that includes virtual reality simulations for user-centred building evaluation and design are invited to contact Dr. Saskia Kuliga or Vertr.Prof. Sven Schneider at InfAR.