Thesis Proposal

THESIS PROPOSAL FALL 2021

”...Please look closely at real cities. While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.” - Jane Jacobs

Tactile digital urbanism experiences can be used for navigation, communicate, entertain, and combined experience that will alter there perceptions of public life and what it means to be a participant in space making within public plazas and social hubs. With the use of the AIA Design Excellence criteria I will produce an independent project that uses architectural thinking to advance the world of digital urbanism as a resource for immersive space making. An extension of physical architecture forms, this exhibition will give the public spaces of Orange Square (Located within the Tempe campus of ASU) opportunities to apply digitally designed interventions onto the physical landscape.

In conclusion this independent project will work to answer how [X]R technology can be leveraged to re-shape and re-purpose existing spaces through the use of under utilized BIM modeling information. Located within public spaces where users inhabit on a day to day basis.

The image top image shows Orange Square as the sun is setting. The site is inactive at certain times of the day and at times during the weekends.

This Second image is showing the public plaza of Orange Square with digital elements that people can interact, share experiences, alter or change this immersive world. This could be booth experiences from within an on site visit or virtually from a remote location because of the reuse of the digital twin model.

Image by Michael Nothum