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FABRICATING TRUTH

 

 

 

PALLAVI SWARANJALI, Carleton University

 

Forging Architecture: The Contronymic Nature of Architectural Creation in the work of

 

Indian Ar. B.V.Doshi

 

 

 

 

STEVEN BEITES, Laurentian University

 

Context Through Awareness

 

 

 

 

KATIE GRAHAM, Carleton University

 

Architectural Storytelling in Virtual Reality: How VR Can Expand on Architectural Perception

 

 

A piece of architecture tells a story through its material, composition, and occupants; however, the story is limited to what is visible to the visitor. Only a fraction of

 

the history is shown through the physical construction of the building, with the less tangible factors lost in other mediums, unable to present themselves in the

 

mortar and brick. As illustrated in the books Ways of Worldmaking, and Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, new understandings of reality are possible

 

through the reorganizing, emphasizing, and change of perspective of the contents in existence. By changing the way we see a building, we can alter or expand on its

 

story and reality. Immerging technologies, such as virtual reality, introduce exciting new avenues to explore storytelling in architecture that will expand on how

 

architecture is understood.

 

 

According to Devon Dolan and Michael Parets,1 virtual reality storytelling can be defined as having one of two classifications in both existence and influence.

 

Existence is the role the viewer takes which is either as an observer or as a participant. Influence is defined as the control or agency the viewer has on the outcome

 

of the story, defined as active or passive. To expand on this, we can define the experience as either communal or solitary to explain if it is a shared or private

 

experience.

 

 

The virtual reality storytelling types will have different results on how the architectural story is perceived. Through the application and comparison of each method,

 

this research proposes to examine how storytelling within virtual reality expands the visitor’s knowledge of the physical building.

 

 

1 D. Dolan and M. Parets, “Redefining the axiom of Story: The VR and 360 video complex,” in TechCrunch. (Jan. 14, 2016). https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/14/

 

redefining-the- axiom-of- story-the-vr-and- 360-video- complex/ (visited July 5, 2017).

 

 

 

 

 

TED LANDRUM, University of Manitoba

 

Poetry as Research: Fabricating Architectural Truth

 

 

FABRICATING IN SITU

 

 

 

SCOTT GERALD SHALL, Lawrence Technological University

 

Borrowed Intelligence: Leveraging Industrial Fabrication To Evolve Building Production

 

 

 

 

NAHID AHMADI, Carleton University

 

Asphalt Deserts: Rethinking the Architecture of Surface Parking Lots

 

 

 

 

DIETMAR STRAUB, University of Manitoba

 

A Beautiful Waste of Time: Operating a Snow Academy

 

 

 

 

JENNIFER SMITH, Auburn University

 

INCREMENTAL: Resilience through Disaster-Relief Housing

 

 

 

 

BRYAN HE, University of Manitoba

 

Making of the Hakka Vernacular

 

 

 

SOCIAL FABRICS

 

 

 

VALENTINA DAVILA, McGill University

 

Down the Back Stairs: Servants’ Spaces in Montreal’s Square Mile

 

 

 

 

LAWRENCE BIRD, Winnipeg

 

Dominion

 

 

 

 

ELLEN GRIMES, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

 

History's Future Fabrics: New Models for Historic Ecologies

 

 

 

 

NIKOLE BOUCHARD, University of Wisconsin

 

(H)our House

 

 

 

 

RYAN STEC, Carleton University

 

Making Public Space: Examining Walter Lippmann & John Dewey’s pragmatism as a

 

constructive expansion to the spatial theory of public space

 

MEDIATING FABRICS

 

 

LANCELOT COAR, University of Manitoba

 

Lignes d’erre: Tracing the History and Future of Force Flow in Structures

 

 

 

 

FEDERICO GARCIA LAMMERS & JESSICA GARCIA FRITZ, South Dakota State University

 

Master Building Complex Forms in the Absence of Graphics

 

 

 

 

JOE KALTURNYK, Winnipeg

 

The Temporary and the Intermediate: Strategies for a Better Dinner

 

 

 

 

 

 

photo: Landon Lucyk [M2 Architecture]

The 2018 Atmosphere Symposium is co-chaired by: Lisa Landrum and Liane Veness with the support of the Faculty's Cultural Events Committee and the Centre for Architectural Structure and Technology (C.A.S.T.); web design and graphics support by Tali Budman (ED4 Architecture student), and administrative support from Brandy O’Reilly (Faculty of Architecture, Partners Program).

 

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