We’ve got something new to show you.
There’s no better way to round off the week than by launching our new 360 section on the Klic Arquitectos website. From there you can step inside some of our recent projects through a virtual reality viewer: an online tool that lets you move around the 3D model as if you were standing in the room.
Virtual reality keeps gaining ground in the way architecture is represented. It lets us walk into buildings that haven’t been built yet, judge the spaces properly and settle design decisions before anyone touches the site. It’s a step on from the flat 2D images the profession has been using for years now, the ones everybody calls “renders”.
The potential is considerable and, although it isn’t yet standard issue in most architecture practices, more of us are getting on board every year.
The advantages are clear:
- For us as designers, it is another tool for spatial creativity. We can test variations on the same idea until we land on the one that works.
- It also helps us get inside the project, tying up as many loose ends as possible by fixing details that would otherwise be resolved on site, hammer in hand.
- At the same time it lets us communicate better with the client, who can finally read the space for themselves. That speeds up decisions, which means fewer hours in meetings.
- Once the work is finished, going back to the virtual reality model lets us check whether what was actually built matches what was presented.
- One last point in its favour: with smartphones everywhere, anyone can get hold of the viewing tools. There are free apps that turn a phone into a viewer once you slot it into a pair of VR glasses such as Google Cardboard or similar.
The technology has no real drawbacks, but one thing is worth saying plainly: building a 360 model isn’t a quick job. It calls for specific know-how and it adds production time, which always has to be factored in. It’s not a matter of pressing a button.
At Klicstudio we’ve backed virtual reality properly, and so you get the full effect of the new 360 section we’ve put together a batch of #GafasKlic (gafas is Spanish for glasses) for the first 15 brave souls who drop into the office to collect them. Just arrange a time through our social media or by email at comunicacion@klicstudio.com, and come and pick up a pair.
You’re in for a treat.
