Young Designers '13

Diploma Project

Iconic Architecture – Exploring Mixed-reality Pop-up Books

Keywords

Augmented reality
Pop-up book
Iconic architecture
Installation

Student

Manasi Agarwal

manasi.leo@gmail.com
http://www.manasiagarwal.com

Guide

Dr Jignesh Khakhar

khakharj@nid.edu

Sponsor

Self Sponsored

Synopsis

This project focused on creating an immersive narrative about iconic architecture of the world using interactive digital media and Spatial Augmented Reality (SAR) techniques.

The end result was a pop-up book featuring miniatures of three iconic architectural marvels – the Taj Mahal, the Eiffel Tower and the Tower Bridge – with an option to skip, play or jump to any section of the video-projection. This was facilitated by a 360-degree circular potentiometer, divided equally into three sections of Durability, Functionality and Aesthetics. This multimodal interaction installation was created for museums and exhibitions with an aim to encourage the public to visit such places and gain knowledge-enriching and memorable experiences.