Arch4151 Mimarlıkta Sanal Ortamlar

his course aims to teach students use virtual environments effectively during their project design phase, communicating about their projects and presenting their final works. No specific modeling software will be introduced. Therefore, students are free to use any software they already know. During course students will be expected to generate and/or find different models to explore and explain spaces in virtual environments. Virtual and reality terms will be explained to students and then how to communicate and explore in virtual reality will be investigated more. Students will start their mass creation and continue with basic spaces to experience in virtual reality. Surface manipulation, modeling for virtual environment presentations, placeholder method will be taught. At the end, students will gain a skillset for decision making in virtual reality and evaluating their projects by using this technique and using virtual reality as a presentation tool.

The process of the course is as follows:

1. Assignment: Scene Setup
2. Assignment: Design the environment of the project
3. Assignment: use landscape elements
4. Assignment: Prepare a video in Twinmotion
5. Assignment: Revision
6. Assignment: complex geometry project
7. Assignment: rendering of complex geometry project

Midterm: For the midterm submission, students of ARCH 4151 [Virtual Environments in Architecture] are asked to design a virtual environment that is including an architectural project. This can be your former studio project or any other architecture created by yourself, do not use any downloaded architectural models. You can also continue with your existing project and improve and extend it in terms of material, landscape, geometry, scenes, camera movement, storyboard etc. You are asked to make an animation of minimum 150 seconds illustrating this virtual environment. Use high quality settings (ultra under preferences) for your video and try to explain your project in detail with the help of a creative scene composition and camera movement. Please note, that university policies prohibit students plagiarizing any material under any circumstances.

Final: For the final submission, students of ARCH 4151 [Virtual Environments in Architecture] are asked to design a virtual environment presenting an abstract architectural geometry scenery. The geometry itself should display spatial, architectural qualities like closed, open and semi – open spaces, cantilevers etc. Do not use any downloaded architectural models, the project must be created by yourself. You can also continue with your existing project and improve and extend it in terms of material, landscape, geometry, scenes, camera movement, storyboard etc. You are asked to make an animation of minimum 100 seconds illustrating this virtual environment and telling its story. Use high quality settings (ultra under preferences) for your video and try to explain your project in detail with the help of a creative scene composition and camera movement. In addition to the video, you are asked to submit an A1 panel illustrating your VR project. It should include drawings (plan, section, elevation), renderings, diagrams (exploded diagram, …) and a short intro text.