ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING (3D) REPRESENTATION IN GAMES AND TOYS Maria BOSTENARU DAN
May 15, 2015
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!