Augmenting the Digital Review
Jonathan Scelsa
Yalai Pang, BArch ‘20
Liz Bobyr, BArch ‘23
School of Architecture, Undergraduate Architecture
Augmenting the Digital Review serves as an investigation into the use of augmented reality technology within early architectural education, as a means of introducing both historical and contemporary tools of abstract making and seeing.

The research, which culminated in a summer outreach studio, examines how early education can utilize readily accessible smartphone interfaces to develop connections between digital and physical world-building techniques.
The research builds upon the optic history of architectural perspective drawing towards a new form of abstraction and representation using photogrammetry and augmented reality.
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A Design Initiative for Community Empowerment (DICE) K–12 student utilizes augmented reality to visualize the space of their designed linear corridor.
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A DICE K–12 architecture student creates an urban scene in the computer with a photogrammetric scanned model and a series of added digital people and surrounding elements.
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A DICE K-12 architecture student presents three models of various mixed reality. One which is physical, one which is a photogrammetric scan of the first reprojected through AR, and a third, which was fabricated in the computer creating a mixed reality scene.