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How Technology has changed the Architecture? (Mobile Apps Only)By Aditya Saharia

AIM To Study how Technology is changing the Architecture. (Mobile Apps Only)

Since 2010, smartphones has become one of the most useful and essential tools people use to organize their activities. Companies have developed a lot of apps to help people to do activities of many disciplines, and architecture could not be ignored. With the boom in the application designing industry and the competition amongst them, the quality has improved over the past couple of years. Some of the innovative apps are :-Paper (iOS)Having won Apples App of the Year and been given the 2012 Apple Design Award, the Paper app by FiftyThree, Inc. makes it easy to capture your ideas as sketches, diagrams, illustrations or notes and share them on the internet. Its a simple and intuitive app built specifically for the iPads display. The company recently announced the introduction of a pencil stylus that connects to the iPads via Bluetooth.Price: Free (iOS)

Magic Plan

This is a very interesting and useful app. It uses the devices cameras to draw the floor plans of real spaces. You just have to stand in a certain place and point your device, and the app will draw the floor plan. When it is done, you can export the floor plan as a PDF, DXF or a JPG.Price: Free (IOS, Android)

Morpholio Trace (iOS)

The more you draw the better it is. I personally love working in layers! The more layers you have the more refined the design turns out to be. This application is perfect for this; you keep sketching over your sketches. Adding layers over layers just like one places tracing paper. Its truly the perfect application for an architect.Price: Free (iOS)

AutoCad 360

Developed by Autodesk, AutoCAD 360 is an extremely fundamental app that needs to be installed on your phone or tablet so that you have access to all the drawings when you are on the go. AutoCAD 360 enables you to view, create or edit any drawings. It will help you to access drawings anytime and anywhere you need to, and you can also share them using your web browser.

Price: Free (IOS, Android)

Walking clients through a project can be tedious, particularly if the work is still ongoing. Architects have long relied on paper, physical models, field visits, and, more recently, digital tools to convey progress on a project. Earlier this year, Autodesk announced plans to make 3D models created in a selection of its software programs compatible with Microsoft's HoloLens augmented reality (AR) technology. The company is not alone. Software developers in the AEC space are evolving digital modeling with the development of AR and virtual reality (VR) platforms that allow project teams to use mobile phones, tablets, and headsets to immerse themselves and their clients in their forthcoming buildings. Latest Technology: Augmented Reality

What is Augmented Reality?Augmented Reality is a type of virtual reality that aims to duplicate the world's environment in a computer. An augmented reality system generates a composite view for the user that is the combination of the real scene viewed by the user and a virtual scene generated by the computer that augments the scene with additional information. The virtual scene generated by the computer is designed to enhance the user's sensory perception of the virtual world they are seeing or interacting with. The goal of Augmented Reality is to create a system in which the user cannot tell the difference between the real world and the virtual augmentation of it. Today Augmented Reality is used in entertainment, military training, engineering design, robotics, manufacturing and other industries.

How is it any different seeing a rendered project in AR to a quality render on a PC/Laptop screen?There's a number of reasons for this that I've noticed personally with the first being depth perception & space. With a good HMD (Head Mounted Display) you can actually get a real sense of scale. Whether it be the impressive size of an entire building or the distance between two benches this is not always easy for the average person to perceive from an image on a PC/Laptop screen. This brings me to the second and most important point which is "feeling." With presence comes feeling whereby a person not only sees what's been created. They can actually "feel" what it's like to be in that space visually. I'm told this can be the hardest part of a project for an architect or designer to convey to a client making it a very compelling technology.

How does Augmented Reality Works? (VIDEO)

Since last 4-5 years, smartphones have made a major impact on users all around the globe on almost everything, so how can architecture be ignored. With the advancement in technology, architecture world has been benefited a lot. There are lot more apps that helps architects in everything from photography to designing to taking notes to even making measured plans. It has also made the client or users smart which ultimately helps architect to understand them better.Also the latest Augmented Reality Technology of smartphones, has changed the entire perspective of how people see architecture. I think a lot will be changed in the upcoming 3-4 years which will be really exciting to see.By Aditya SahariaSection - ATHANK YOU

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