Virtual Reality as Collaborative Design Pedagogy on 3 Continents

In the context of a challenging year for face to face education and more specifically for courses such as design studios, this paper proposes to discuss how a pedagogy based on immersive virtual environments can be conducive to a more collaborative approach in architecture studio. As we are currently teaching design studios with a combination of remote and face to face modalities it seems an opportune moment to explore how Virtual Reality can affect the design and learning process. This paper presents a collaborative design exercise organized between three schools of architecture in Germany, the US, and Mauritius and involved the design of rooftop additions in different urban context on three continents. Students used the Spatial App with Virtual Reality headsets, Conceptboard, Slack, WhatsApp and Zoom to communicate, collaborate, design and formally present their work.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.110.29

Volume Editors
Robert Gonzalez, Milton Curry & Monica Ponce de Leon

ISBN
978-1-944214-40-1