Architectural Design Archive
TURISMO VIRTUAL
The project starts from two different ideas. On the one hand, what is tourism in a quest to adapt it to the 21st century, on the other hand virtual space and the exploration of its possibilities.
We study main touristic buildings of Cádiz searching a place for the New Monument and choose Santa Catalina’s Castle, currently used as a museum.
It is proposed a virtual intervention that will coexist with this use, forming two people meshes, those who see and tour what really exists (curent museum) and those who wear virtual reality glasses and tour something entirely different (our new proposed reality).

The four virtual proposals are not merely visual, besides that small structures or structures can be acquired that attract the other senses and allow us to believe that the new virtual reality is as real as what exists. (air diffuser simulating wind, facilities that release odors, control of humidity, sound, etc.).

What is built or “real”, namely existing and new interventions, is drawn in pink and what we see with virtual reality glasses (virtual proposal), is drawn in blue.