2020, Undergraduate design studio, Innsbruck

"Common Ground: Collaborative Voxels" is a multiplayer real-time building game engine focusing on construction and strategy.
There was a significant loss of social interaction due to work-from-home policies and virtual instruction. We developed a real-time multiplayer platform with a gaming engine so that students can collaborate on the design even if they are in quarantine at home. Our goal is to provide everyone an equal opportunity to engage, meet peers, and even collaborate on designs through virtual collaboration. The interface of the platform allows students to combine a variety of architectural pieces into a greater whole. The building mechanism is based on voxel logic, which is common in game worlds. The resulting collaborative digital structure proves that a real-time building platform can be one way of digitalizing social contacts within the educational workplace.

 at Innsbruck University, 2020
Lecturers: Marine Lemarié, Nicolas Stephan, Tutors: Nina Hütter, Julian Edelmann, 170 students

Common Ground: Collaborative Voxels

This workshop uses the medium of images to conceptualize ambivalence in architectural form. Students develop individual catalogs of two-dimensional figures and gradually develop them into three-dimensional models. The focus lies on compositions investigating contrasting architectural qualities: flatness and depth, figure and abstract form, scale and scalelessness, signal and noise.

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