Circular architecture, from panoramas to immersive environments

Prequisites:
  • Previous lessons
Objectives:
  • To study a new form of vision: panoramic vision instead of central vista views.
  • To study present-day digital equivalents.

Description:

A study of

  • historical documents
  • digital panoramas

Questions
CIRCULAR ARCHITECTURE
Circular buildings existed in Antiquity and in the Renaissance. They were studied by later architects
  • The features of circular architecture

Circular architecture implies a mode of vision distinct from the box-like stage set described in the first section of the course 'The theatre as a model of space': that of the rotunda

  • The history of circular architecture

Circular architecture has been known from Prehistory and Antiquity onwards; it was reinterpreted in later centuries

 
PANORAMAS AND VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS
Just as we can use web animations to reproduce 17th century scene-shifting in the rectangular Italianate stage, we can use 360° virtual panoramas to reproduce the panoramic paintings of the 19th century.
  • Panoramas in the late 18th and 19th centuries

The interest for panoramic vision grew from the late 18th century onwards, with the panoramas.

  • Panoramic vision and VR

Digital versions of panoramic vision can thus emphasises the 360° experience, or the sense of focusing on different areas in succession

 
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