Theme:

SPATIAL SIMULATION AND EVALUATION

New tools in architectural and urban design

Conference target

The exact notation and evaluation of space in architectural and urban structures requires an experimental approach. Spatial simulation has become a good tool as a method in order to represent urban-architectural drafts and subjective verifications of the manifestations of the structure that is being formed on a physical or virtual model in real time and in real (virtual) space. Furthermore, visual spatial experiences in the natural horizon of the future internal spatial scenery participant can be anticipated using optical and electronic equipment.

The educational process of architects requires a didactic orientation on visual abstraction and development of a medial imagination competence for individual creative ideas. From this point of view, interactive methods of spatial visualization in an analogue or digital form based on the principles of spatial endoscopy result relevant. It is possible to state, that spatial analogue and digital modeling is an indispensable tool of generative design and of the creative process in architecture and town planning. The notation and evaluation of sensual experiences of the environment has a similar significance, as they are the programmed outputs of spatial simulation. Of equal importance is the interconnection between creation (design) and evaluation.

The aim of the conference shall be to review the possibilities and limits of multimedia use/applications of the tools for spatial representations in the future development of the new generation of architectural imaging communications and information systems. An integral part would be compatibility testing of the methods and tools of spatial simulation and evaluation as well as verification of the possibilities for participation of relevant disciplines in this specific area.

Spatial imagination; imagination pedagogy; imaging communication; tools and imaging technologies in architecture; media interactivity; contextual design; didactics of spatial modeling; generative design; analogue and digital model composition; visual elements of urban design (structure, space, illumination, colour richness, atmosphere); psychology of spatial perception; methods and techniques of spatial simulation and evaluation; "endoscopic" model simulation.

• Most recent hardware, methods and techniques of simulation laboratories in concerned institutions.
• Examination of selected works and results of spatial simulation laboratories (diploma and semester works, scientific projects, etc.)
• Exchange of know-how in application of new media in architectural and urban spatial simulation (in education and practice).
• Exchange of know-how on digital and analogue model composition and their exploitation in methods of endoscopic model simulation.
• Development of new tools of visual communication and visual technologies for application in architectural educational and practice..
• Inter-media exploitation of the tools and technologies of imaging in future development of new generations of architectural imaging communication.
• Progressive methods and techniques of new media applied to model simulation.
• Interdisciplinary assets for the analogue and digital endoscopic spatial simulation theory.
• Implementation of scientific knowledge of related social sciences in spatial simulation.

Conference venue

Faculty of Architecture

Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava

Nám. slobody 19

812 45 Bratislava

The recommended hotels and lunch facilities are within short walking distance from the conference building (see conference web map)

Organizer

Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava

Faculty of Architecture

Nám. slobody 19

812 45 Bratislava

Conference Committees

Scientific Committee:

Organizing & Coordination Committee:

Contacts

Assoc. Prof. Ing. Arch. Peter Kardos, PhD.  -  Ing. Arch. Andrea Urland, PhD.

Faculty of Architecture, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava

Department of Urban-Architectural Complexes

Námestie slobody 19

SK - 812 45 Bratislava 1

Slovak Republic

www.fa.stuba.sk

tel: + 4212-57 276 261

email: kardos@fa.stuba.sk