Interactive Design and Visualization Lab
Syracuse COE 14th Annual Symposium 2014 Advanced Building Systems Integrating Efficiency Quality and Resilience
The Interactive Design and Visualization Lab (IDVL) is a design environment for developing hybrid-reality simulations for interactive design and energy performance testing ranging from the micro-material to building envelope to urban scale. The lab supports visualization techniques ranging from large digital augmented reality (AR) projections to immersive virtual reality (VR) technologies in order to experiment with new computational workflows that support the analysis, design, and development of high-performance materials, systems, and spaces. The custom-programmed design environment consists of motion and infrared sensors for gestural user interaction, digitally projected surfaces for full-scale AR and VR visualizations, and analysis software for daylighting, fluid dynamics, and energy simulations.