|Recife, Brazil|
The prototype presented here is a product of a workshop part of the biomimetics and parametric design seminar taught by André Fox, Rafael Rattes, Ana Luísa Rolim, and Victor Sardenberg. The specialization program was coordinated by Clarissa Duarte and Dyego Digiandomenico.
The students carried out an intervention in physical and digital space. On-site, it is possible to see the structure with concrete blocks called Casa Hifas where a layer of digital reality overlaps. It is a piece where the person can inhabit two realities: physical and digital. This is the purpose for exploration
Augmented reality was used to go directly from the 3D model to construction, and parametric modeling tools were used not only to increase productivity but mainly to explore new formal aesthetic possibilities in architecture. This type of technology, for example, allows architects and designers to develop projects without producing printed drawings.
The prototype also dialogued with the academic proposal of the specialization, which is the development of a “minimum smart house”. A section of this minimal house was prototyped, which in our case is the exploration of a wall element, a partition, and a closure that could avoid conventional solutions and be built in a more daring way, generating a kind of hybrid wall, not just to separate one thing from the other but to sit down, to see through.
To communicate the process of design and construction, Augmented Reality is a second time applied for an in loco exhibition containing drawings, models and videos.