Franz Fischnaller is scheduled to hold a lecture about VR and Architecture and speak about his projects related to architecture. The lecture is part of the School of Architecture’s new initiative called Wednesdays @ One, which hopes to expand and enrich the relationships with the professional community, with colleagues from diverse disciplines, and with projects of note in the Chicago area.

PART I
1.) Why Virtual Reality is an intelligent tool for architecture and design.

2.) New concepts and challenges in architecture: How digital media and Virtual Reality can be incorporated in architectonic structures and buildings?

• Designing high tech intelligent multi-purpose buildings
• Incorporating and integrating digital media and high-end technology into design and architecture
• Exploring new forms in design and architecture
• Implementing innovative technological expressive forms
• Overlapping functionality and fantasy in its highest expression with a new system of living and interacting with the impossible
• Examples: “Cyber Space Theme Park”, “Stargate Hotel”, “Space Entertainment Center”, “Space Atrium Hotel”, Space Hotel, designed by Franz Fischnaller