Representação arquitetônica e realidade virtual: a tecnologia aliada ao projeto participativo

Abstract

Architecture needs to have its ideas communicated and shared during the design process in order to add value to its results and prove itself adequate for its purpose; however, the traditional architecture representation methods may be an obstacle to communication, as they need interpretative knowledge hardly developed outside thearchitecture, engineering and construction means. Based on this perception, this work aims to demonstrate how the use of emerging technology, presented here by Virtual Reality, that has been widely diffused into society in recent years, can significantly increase communication in architecture, involving users in its discussions and decisions, making the design process participatory, interactive and democratic. For this purpose, it was made use of interviews, experiences and sampling, with projects of various autorships, in order to capture the user's perceptions towardsVirtual Reality.