February 20, 2025
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Architecture professor Nick Bruscia's ARC 605 studio is developing new approaches to handwork fabrication informed by mixed reality guides, combining human intuition and experience with advanced holographic visualization tools and computational modeling. Here, students construct a geodesic gridshell that obtains its strength through curvature and actively bending the material. The structure was assembled entirely in mixed reality — no drawing set or on-site measuring was used to complete the assembly, only holographic guides viewed through Microsoft HoloLens 2 headsets. The project is now on display in the Hayes Hall atrium. Photo: Nick Bruscia
Published November 22, 2024