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Authors: |
Kos, José Ripper . | |
Title: |
Architecture and hyperdocument: data shaping space | |
Keywords: |
hyperdocument, multimedia, 3D modelling, architecture, urbanism | |
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Abstract: |
The computer interface can't convey
the hole experience of walking through a city or a building. Nevertheless, the complexity
of all the aspects involved in those threedimensional spaces can be better understood
through the non-linearity of the hyperdocument. Each inhabitant of a city and a building
has many layers of relationship with both.The sequence and the extent each observer
explores the space is unique. It's not totally apprehended in a first visit. As the
observer knows better that space, his experience changes. Similar experiences take place
in a multimedia application. Hence, it's possible to build an analogy between the
architectonic or urban structure and a hyperdocument navigation structure. We can also
state that the computer is critical to create paths of architectural information through
space and time. The 3D model of a city is a powerful basis to structure the hyperdocument navigation. The city can be viewed in separate parts or layers of information. One investigates the city through different aspects of its configuration and explores it in different scales and levels of detail. The images generated from the 3D model can be combined with video, photo, sound and text, organizing the information which gives form to the city. The navigation addresses the city by its economy, housing, religion, politics, leisure, projects, symbolic buildings, etc... This paper will discuss these issues through the experiences of the research done at the School of Architecture and Urbanism of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. The research group "The symbolic structure evolution of Latin-American cities" in PROURB (Graduate Program of Urbanism) analyses the city and its buildings using CD-ROMs and websites. |
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| Kós, José Ripper.
Josekos@acd.ufrj.br Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo - UFRJ Architect graduated at
FAU-UFRJ in 1987 with a Master Degree from the School of Architecture, Tulane University
in New Orleans, USA in 1991. Author of many architectural and urban design projects, some
of them published in national and international architectural magazines. Professor of
Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, UFRJ since 1993, teaches at the undergraduate course
and at PROURB - FAU (Graduate Program of Urbanism) as the Sub-coordinator of Research and
Projects. SIGraDi (Latin-American Society in Digital Graphics) founder and member of the
executive committee.Since 1994 researches hyperdocuments for architectural and urban
analysis based on 3D computer models. Author of the CD-ROMs "Ministry of Education
Building" - 1995 (Latin American Prix Möbius Honor Mention), "The symbolic
structure evolution of Latin-American cities: Colonial Havana" - 1997 (Latin American
Prix Möbius Prize) and the website "A palace in the city"- 1998 (II Museu da
República Website Competition Prize). These works were presented in Argentina, Cuba,
Ecuador, France, Mexico and United States.Working now with the CD-Rom "The symbolic
structure evolution of Latin-American cities: Rio de Janeiro" and the "Rio
Follies", an installation project along the beach with 20 undergraduate and graduate
students from FAU-UFRJ and 20 graduate students of Royal College of Arts in London. This
last project is done through the Internet and will be constructed in Rio de Janeiro with
the British and Brazilian students in April, 99. |
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