AR for Architects
“Augmented-reality drop-down menus are the Gothic ornamentation of tomorrow.”
Domestic Robocop was featured on BLDGBLOG today, thanks Nic and Geoff!
Geoff Manaugh also linked in this article from the Icon website about AR; towards the end there are some interesting points on AR, Architecture (ARchitecture? sorry, it had to be done at some point), and the changing role of the architect:
But at the moment, architects are barely involved in developing this interactive environment – something that troubles Haque, who fears the profession will be sidelined. “The production of so much of what we call architecture is done by people other than architects,” he says. “The experience of space is more and more guided by technologists.”
It’s possible, as these technologies develop, that the effect on “un-augmented” reality could be harmful. As more signage and advertising is geared towards triggering AR content, for instance by including QR codes, the city might look increasingly baffling to un-augmented eyes. “Even now in Japan, often a third of a billboard advertising a new TV show will be a huge blocky QR code – one third of that poster has become unreadable to human beings,” says Matt Jones, director of design at creative design consultancy Schulze & Webb. “We might see less and less information in the world that’s human-readable, as more of it becomes machine-readable.”
This idea of computer-legible landscapes was the starting point for my current project (and will be my final scene in the film), but although it sounds frightening, it could liberate architects to work beyond physical space.
The future architect could be something more akin a set, interface or game designer, our knowledge of structural loading and building regulations replaced with knowledge of programming, philosophy and human behavior. I think this is a great and exciting thing but it requires us to stake out a new territory, somewhat redefine the profession, and importantly: not leave it up to the ‘technologists’.
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