Architectural User Interface - Synthesizing augmented reality and architecture
Éric Sauda, Alireza Karduni, Noushin Radnia · eCAADe proceedings · 2022
Space is the natural setting for augmented reality (AR), suggesting the possibility of an architecture interface. The release of advanced AR devices will introduce new interactive, hybrid spaces infused and organized by information. For computer science, AR is agnostic to its spatial setting, but designing AR and architecture together will allow for exploration of a full range of affordances, feedback mechanism and output/display options. We present design research at Mount Zion Archaeological Park in Jerusalem for a museum and park preserving and explaining the site. Huge amounts of data generated during the excavation are connected to the archaeological record across the region and the world. Our team of architectural & computational designers and faculty from architecture, archeology, and computer science engaged the design of tightly coupled AR interactions and architectural spaces. Our design method allowed designers to visualize and understand simultaneously the design of space and information. We generated 12 designs, using them as the basis for a preliminary set of usability heuristics for an Architecture User Interface.