Research, ToolsComputation, Landscape

The Third Simulation


Augmented Reality Fluvial Modeling Tool









TYPE: Research
YEAR: 2019
In recent design discourse in landscape architecture, ecological and environmental concerns have stimulated a shift from rigid formal practice to design of dynamic systems that are constantly in fluctuation. The digital revolution has provided landscape architects intelligent tools to challenge the determinacy of traditional static simulation and modeling method. However, it has also distanced physical material exploration from the standard protocols of the discipline. This research presents the use of small tangible hydromorphology table as new workflows and methods of design for landscape architectural interventions within hydrological systems. By integrating physical hydraulic simulation model with real-time computational fluvial simulation through augmented reality technologies, the new method enables landscape architects to design intuitively with tangible material process, while being informed by computational simulation results simultaneously.