TY - CPAPER
KW - Architectural design
KW - cultural landscape
KW - Digital heritage
KW - Game Engine
KW - Historical information
KW - Immersive environments
KW - Immersive virtual environments
KW - Intangible cultural heritages
KW - It focus
KW - Painting reinterpretation
KW - Travel notes
KW - User experience
KW - Users  experiences
KW - Virtual reality
AU - Q. Xu
AU - A. Brown
AU - T. Moleta
AU - M.A. Schnabel
AU - M. Rogers
AB - The research investigates digital landscape heritage. It focuses on the application of Virtual Reality (VR) in a game engine. The aim is to aid the understanding and interpretation of ancient principles relating to sensitive and appropriate interaction of the built form and its associated landscape. The principles have at their root harmony of human inhabitation, the built forms and the landscape they are surrounded. This understanding can lead to re-application within a contemporary context, and the VR environment has the potential to augment and enrich it. For the first time ever, the research has reinterpreted a classical depiction of Suzhou, in an 18th-century handscroll painting, into a three-dimensional immersive virtual environment. It proposes that VR can be a way to experience and increase understanding of heritage landscapes; in our case one that now only exists in an ancient idealised painting. The reinterpretation aims to enhance the users  experience and understanding of the Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage. The spatialised scene is augmented through the integration of other historical information, such as poems and travel notes, to embed intangible aspects into the gardens and landscapes.
C2 - RE: Anthr., Des. Age Humans - Proc. Int. Conf. Comput.-Aided Archit. Des. Res. Asia, CAADRIA
N1 - Journal Abbreviation: RE: Anthr., Des. Age Humans - Proc. Int. Conf. Comput.-Aided Archit. Des. Res. Asia, CAADRIA
N2 - The research investigates digital landscape heritage. It focuses on the application of Virtual Reality (VR) in a game engine. The aim is to aid the understanding and interpretation of ancient principles relating to sensitive and appropriate interaction of the built form and its associated landscape. The principles have at their root harmony of human inhabitation, the built forms and the landscape they are surrounded. This understanding can lead to re-application within a contemporary context, and the VR environment has the potential to augment and enrich it. For the first time ever, the research has reinterpreted a classical depiction of Suzhou, in an 18th-century handscroll painting, into a three-dimensional immersive virtual environment. It proposes that VR can be a way to experience and increase understanding of heritage landscapes; in our case one that now only exists in an ancient idealised painting. The reinterpretation aims to enhance the users  experience and understanding of the Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage. The spatialised scene is augmented through the integration of other historical information, such as poems and travel notes, to embed intangible aspects into the gardens and landscapes.
PB - The Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA)
SN - 9789887891741 (ISBN)
SP - 173
EP - 182
TI - Inhabiting  Prosperous Suzhou  through Smart VR
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85091706522&partnerID=40&md5=d20b5b1f7775e13e63b90e02296df079
VL - 2
ER -