VR for Architects

Presentation held at VR Meetup Stockholm, March 2015

Transcript

1. Virtual Reality for Architects Pelle Beckman, March 5th 2015
2. Content 1.
 How have I been using VR? 2.
 How can VR be beneficial to architects and the construction industry
3. Presentation 30 + Q&A 10 Minutes Feel free to interrupt!
4. Background
5. Who is this guy?
6. Pelle Beckman • Architect, trained at KTH in Stockholm • Runs the company
 Beckman Creative since 2013 • Work in architecture, concept development and story & new tech
7. Spoon Content Agency,
 Stockholm. Images © Equator Stockholm
8. Part of team behind Mojang HQ,
 Interior design by BSK. Images © Mojang AB
9. Refurbished kitchen
 Kungsholmen, Stockholm
10. https://issuu.com/pellebeckman/docs/arkitekten-2-2015-pb
11. ”BIM”? • BIM = Building Information Modeling • ”Generation + management of digital
 representations of places” • Not just architects, also builders,
 owners, tech. consultants, etc. • Collaborative and concurrent editing
13. Part 1. How have I been using VR?
14. Kungsholmen, Stockholm
16. Option A Frödingsvägen 4, Stockholm 2015.01.11 · Beckman Creative · beckmancreative.se Kök, Alternativ 1. Diskmaskin, spis och kylfrys på långsida .RUWVLGD”YHUVN£SRFKVNDŸHUL,QE\JJGPLFUR Kortsida 2. Med öppna hyllor.
17. Option B Frödingsvägen 4, Stockholm 2015.01.11 · Beckman Creative · beckmancreative.se Kök, Alternativ 2. Flytt av vägg med “infällt” kylfrys
18. 80 000 kr?
20. From AutoCAD …
21. … to SketchUp …
22. … to Unreal Engine.
23. A virtual body! Gives a better sense of presence, but still tricky (in small spaces for example)
24. + Gamepad You don’t want a sense of lag between your body and your spatial interactions.
27. ”How that I’ve done it once I don’t ever want to refurbish my apartment without it. I feel much more comfortable with the choices I’ve made.”
28. Part 2. How can VR be beneficial to architects and the construction industry?
29. Drawings & sketches
 Digital, physical, pen-and-paper, paintings, photos
30. Models
 Paper, wood, 3D-printing
31. Digital tools
 Drawings, modeling, BIM, Photoshop, InDesign, etc
32. These are tools for representing space. And there is certainly room for complementary tools.
33. Architecture as an experience is built on spaces and movements in these spaces. So we use these three tools to try to understand how we will experience spatial qualities.
34. Actual full scale mockups do happen, but it’s not very common and usually focused on specific elements.
35. (Apple is – of course – the exception…) Steve Jobs Actual built part of new campus as mockup
36. What is the process of architecture? A.k.a. ”How does a house get built?”
37. (The simplified version) ASSIGNMENT SKETCHING MATERIALS MODELS DO WE NEED BUILDING PERMITS? MUNICIPALITY CITY COUNCIL ETC. CLIENT SIGNOFF CLIENT FEEDBACK BUILDING CONTRACTORS ECONOMY = CHANGES PERMITS OK? CONSTRUCTION DONE! “BLUEPRINTS” ”What is it?” ”Does the public understand it”? ”What am I building?”
38. Majority of architectural projects and not BIM projects; most are still 2D-based. However, simple 3D sketches are common
39. Two categories Design phase • Data from general 2D or 3D software. • Quick iterations • ”Understanding-oriented” • Internal use Construction phase
 • Data from BIM • Slower iterations • Less big changes • ”Communication-oriented” • External use
40. The Slussen project
41. Sum up
42. • There is a space for applied virtual reality in architecture, but more work is needed to define in what stages it’s most useful. • New software is required and hardware needs to be common and simple to use
 • We need fast iteration!
 Going from drawingà3d ModelàGame engineàVR is too slow 
 • We need interaction!
 “Could you move this pillar five meters?” 
 • VR for architects can’t be too taxing on equipment.
 No dual GTX 980 rigs available Sum up
43. Thank you!
 Questions? E-post pelle@beckmancreative.se Webb beckmancreative.se Maillista om VR bit.ly/pelles-lista