ARCHITECTURE AND

URBAN PLANNING (3D)

REPRESENTATION IN

GAMES AND TOYS

Maria BOSTENARU DAN

Introduction

Review of architecture and urbanism games

Conclusions

Introduction

Introduction

Toys – 3D viewing

Canadian Centre of Architecture exhibitions

Games – construction management models

(resource)

Most research on computer games

Board games

Board Games Studies conference -

archaeology

Review of

architecture and urbanism

games

Review of architecture and

urbanism games

Playcards

Toys

Puzzle games

Board games

Role playing games at city scale

Computer games

Playcards

Souvenir playing cards (photographic

reproduction of monuments): Gaudi, Berlin,

Chicago, Philadelphia

Più e meno (associations)

Baustelle Kartenspiel

SimCity

Toys

Frank Lloyd Wright, Buckminster Fuller

Froebel toys (Kindergarten)

Today: SketchUp

Skyscraper/tower building

“Stadtbaukasten” (Il Gioco della capitale =

Capital game) - "Geburt einer Hauptstadt"

(June 17 - September 17, 1988, St. Pöltens) –

teamwork, filming participation

Bulevardul, casa si poporul, Urban Observatory,

Bucharest

Froebel

Toys

Puzzle games

2D puzzle – photovoice

3D puzzle

Heritage

Children„s day 2012

Favorit cinema

Puzzle games

Sagrada Familia

Puzzle games

Board games

Socio-economic model

Becoming the wealthiest player

Strategy games + elements of fate (cards, dice)

Centuries old

Today„s model: Monopoly

CCA collection:

Paris

Fortifications

Skyscraper (King Kong – based on film)

Board games

Cathedral

CCA

Ken Follett (novel, film)

Pillars of the Earth – translated to computer

World without End – natural hazard

Issue of demolition

American city: Urban sprawl

Habitat

Role playing bringing games into decision making

AHP - conflict

Habitat

Board games

Säulen der Erde

Board games

Tore der Welt

Board games

Role playing games at city

scale

Green CCA

Klosterrallye (HaDiKo, Karlsruhe)

SozialLabor: Dorf (KIT) < Green Revolution

Game

Prize 1994

Basis for study works of master students

Linz – cultural capital

World Game (Buckminster Fuller)

Green CCA

http://www.cca.qc.ca/en/study-centre/895-green-cca-power-corporation-of-

canada-2010-research

City scale

Computer games

Serious games

Rebuilding a virtual world – based on

rendering

Winy Maas „Space fighter“

Second Life – participative medium

EUR in Rome

According to European Landscape Convention

(Faro)

Participative game Stuttgart

Quizzes

Learning tool

Completion to tourism guide CDs

Art Nouveau Network

http://www.artnouveau-

net.eu/Network/Actions/Children/tabid/827/language/en-GB/Default.aspx

Computer games

Prototype

Computer games

Computer game prototype

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Urban games as tourism guide

Computer games

Computer games

„Construction and management games“, a

subgenre of which are „city building games“

SimCity - father of all

2D – scenarios (modelling of linear processes

only)

3D

SimTorino – simulation of urban development

Followers: CivWorld, CityVille etc.

Simulation of resources through symbols

SimCity

Computer games

SimCity FB

SimCity 4

http://www.laq-tip.polito.it/SimTorino/

Luca Caneparo

SimTorino

Computer games

Other simulations of natural catastrophes:

HfG: Fukushima nuclear disaster

Other educational environment games

Poplin: NextCampus (Hamburg)

Employment in disaster management (through

mobile device allert)

Fukushima disaster – HfG Karlsruhe game

http://www.hfg-karlsruhe.de/news/mit-wassereimern-den-atomaren-gau-

bekaempfen.html

Computer games

Alenka Poplin: Hamburg next campus (B3)

Citizens can send their plans to urban planners

Computer Games

Conclusions

Conclusions

Toys and games having architecture and

urbanism subjects

Today focus on virtual reality (serious) games –

but the hard copy board games are not to be

neglected

3D in toys led to CAD applications

Employable for educational purposes

Study of decisions in games (game theory –

drama theory – conflict solving & economics

research)

Involvment of society – participatory dimension

– democratisation of planning

Thank you!