APPENDIX OF IMMERSING INTO ARCHITECTURE BEFORE ARCHITECTURE

189 Pages·2016·7.59 MB·English

by  Ana Moreira

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A c k n o w l e d g e m e n t s
A g r a d e c i m e n t o s

Päivi Ahola, Pekka Passinmäki, Martti Lamppu,
Satu Huuhka, Hanna Vikberg, Mikko Heikkinen,
Pauli Koivisto, Cláudia Antão, Tapio Hellman,
Tiina Yli-Karhu, Jyrki Jääskeläinen, Juho-Pekka,
Raquel Paulino, Manuel G. Dias, Nuno Arenga,
Amílcar G. Pires, João Briosa, João M. Ribeiro,
Catarina Campos, Luca Martinucci, Julio Bermudez

The image presented in the cover of this dissertation is an edited version by Ana Moreira Bento from the
original image: Diagram extended field of vision (Herbert Bayer, 1935), retrieved from: www.opusklassiek.nl.

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I n d e x

Introduction ................................................................................................................................. 7

Motivation .................................................................................................................................... 9
Internship in a Finnish VRlab ............................................................................................... 11

Field Research ............................................................................................................................ 13
Interviewees............................................................................................................................ 15
Interviews ............................................................................................................................... 21
Contextualisation ................................................................................................................. 23
Guide of questions ............................................................................................................... 25
Interviewees’ feedback ......................................................................................................... 27
Surveys ................................................................................................................................. 119
Script ................................................................................................................................. 121
Results ............................................................................................................................... 125
Schools’ photographic report .............................................................................................. 157

Index of Images ........................................................................................................................ 183

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Introduction
This appendix is a complement to the main document Immersing into Architecture before
Architecture: the potentialities of Virtual Reality as an architectural representation. This
document gathers data related to events and contents presented in the dissertation. The
purpose behind this gathering of reports, interviews, surveys’ results and photographs is to
provide awareness about the origin of intentions, curiosities, stimulations and interests about
the thematic and the approach accomplished. The field research has an acuted presence in
this document, once it gave an essential contribution for the acquisition of perspectives
integrated in the discussion.
This document is divide in two moments. The first one is a report of the internship held in
2014, under the ERASMUS+ program, in a VR laboratory in Finland. The experience
promoted a first contact with Virtual Reality where a project was carried out aiming the
conciliation between the knowledge of third grade architecture student and the exploration
of VR as a tool. The result was enriching, personaly and broadly, leading to an interview
about the work pursued and other issues by ArchiMAD, a Finnish magazine1.
The second moment focus the field research realised within the scope of the dissertation.
Interviews and surveys were the methodology used along with bibliographic research to
achieve the informations needed. Therefore, this second moment is divided in four parts:
Interviewees, where the professors, architects and technicians interviewed are presented;
Interviews, that contains the contextualisation provided to the interviewees before the
interview take place and also their feedback; Surveys, that contains the script of inquiries
provided to the students and their feedback; and Schools’ photographic report, that consists
on a compilation of photographs taken during the visit to the architecture schools, in order
to present their facilities. 2
1 Explained in the Introduction of the main document
2 Every photograph present in this document was taken by the author of this dissertation: Ana Moreira Bento

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Motivation
Internship in a Finnish VRlab