Interview Analysis
By conducting interviews on people from the industry of architecture and design, I am able to collect multiple opinions from different perspective of view towards the technology. Surprisingly, there are two totally different opinion on whether AR could change the way we design. Both opinion from an architect and interior designer has prove that AR would make a difference in creating impacts towards building design and interior design. For instance, the architect’s point of view would focus more on the impact of AR towards the exterior environment including the presentation of demographic data where the designer is expecting more demonstration of AR especially on interior environment. Moreover, the opinions of them about the achievement of AR can do in architecture and design also has major difference in terms of perspective. The architect predicts that AR would become a viable tool for people to understand the interventions and contexts while the designer mentioned that AR could help overcome the fear of people towards new and innovative designs. However, both of their opinions have an agreement that AR could bring more transparency towards the design process and allows people to understand architecture design more. Nonetheless, they both agree that AR technology could bring enhancement to the communication between designer and their client with greater understanding on 3D forms, shapes and environment. Despite the agreement of AR to improve design communication between designer and client, the designer prefers to see the technology to be more developed in the vision of interior space as for interior practice, the client are usually focusing more on interior experience rather than looking at it as an object to the environment.
On the other way, one of the subjects of the interview, a young architect pointed out that it is in fact that AR can enhance the communication between designer and client. However, in terms of visualisation for an AR environment, it would be very time consuming for the design team to produce such quality of virtual environment in a certain period of time. Besides, the opinion from a young design director also stated the current implementation of AR technology in architecture design is still in development stage as the software development company such as Adobe still yet to announce software that cooperate with this technology. From the interview of two of the subjects who are rather young in the industry, I have discovered that the new generation of designers would have more concern towards the technical part when it comes down to the implementation of AR on design field.
Based on the interviews that I have conducted, I had the chance to explore and observe the important opinion from people of architecture and design industry. Besides the interview, I was able to show one of my case studies (ARki) to my lecturers and friends. It was quite surprising to find that many of the lecturers, who have been industry for years knowing AR for the first time. Most of their reactions on the demonstration were amazing as they were to experience it for the first time. Based on the result of the interview, most of the opinion and comments about AR in architecture and design are positive and constructive. This has provided the evidence that AR is feasible in many ways in architecture and design. However, the constructive opinion from the interview has given out that AR could have extra potential in the industry in future with adequate development.
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