Abstract
Abstract. The study presents a process of digital simulation that aims to investigate the legibility of multiple spaces in a complex architecture through architectural survey, virtual reconstruction and 3D visualization in immersive environment. The collaboration between two research institutions, one Italian and the other Chinese, developed a reconstruction of a building in the campus of the Tsinghua University of Beijing using digital tools, in order to understand the behaviours during the fruition of that space. Digital simulation in the visibility theme guarantees the possibility of testing multiple configurations and showing the impacts of the different environmental hypothesis.
Highlights
The Cultural Revolution produced from computer technology, has empathized the concerts of model and image, through the determination of new connections and the subvention of fixed representative hierarchies, having as center the concept of “simulation” (Baudrillard, 1981)
The eye tracking data gave us information about the points of interest of the spaces according to the player’s individuality. The intersection of these data highlighted the weaknesses of the building in terms of legibility of the spaces and efficiency of the wayfinding systems
The eye-tracking data took from one of the tests confirms that: the emergency signposting that incorrectly brings to the main entrance is well notable while the corridor of the safer floor exit goes totally unnoticed (Figure 8-9)
Summary
The Cultural Revolution produced from computer technology, has empathized the concerts of model and image, through the determination of new connections and the subvention of fixed representative hierarchies, having as center the concept of “simulation” (Baudrillard, 1981). Through a sequence of images, virtual simulations has to face the same issues faced by the study of reality, but with the possibility of being in a discretized space, easier to measure, which is not signed by the uniqueness and the “truth” of matter, but it is signed by the multiple possibilities of representing the parametrized form. In this contest, it is possible to see the immersive character to analyze today the built space, and evaluate, in an empiric form, the impact of the possible simulations.
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