Realidade virtual aplicada à arquitetura: uma nova percepção espacial

Abstract

The graphic representation has an important role in the sharing of informations and ideas in the architectural process. Everything must be imagined, documented, and, if possible, lived.because architecture is not about walls and building elements, but the space contained in them. However, the representation commonly used in the project documentation, such as technical plans and elevations, inform measurements, materials, details ... etc., do not carry a sensorial depiction of the space. In this work, new technologies will be presented, which serves as a representation tool, especially the virtual reality technology, and masters the gap left by the absence of spatial representation. Throughout the work, the importance of space in architecture will be addressed, as the human body perceives the same, other uses for this technology, as well as application and sampling research in order to support the role of virtual reality in architecture.