UAR, the NAI mobile architecture application, provides information about the built environment on the basis of text, image, archival material and film on an iPhone or Google Android (and on Nokia phones at a later stage). By means of advanced 3D models, right in the middle of the city UAR shows you on your phone what isn’t there. The city as it once was – for instance by showing buildings that once stood there. The city as it might have been – by showing scale models and design drawings of alternative designs that were never implemented. And the city of the future – by showing artist’s impressions of buildings under construction or in the planning stage.
Augmented reality (AR): how it works
AR can be used on phones with a camera, compass and GPS. Point the phone at a building and you see the building on your screen with a digital layer of information on top. See, for instance, what the original design of that building looked like, or compare a design by a different architect.
New architecture network
In a very short space of time UAR has developed to become a broad mobile platform for architecture and urban design. Created from the ambition to make the NAI collection accessible outside the walls of the institute, UAR has by now become a widely supported platform in which numerous parties cooperate: architecture centres, firms of architects, art institutions, municipal archives, museums, local authorities and market parties. All information that is related to architecture and urban design in the widest sense of the word is available via UAR.
Download the UAR folder.
Cooperation
The application has been made possible with the help of Agentschap NL, the BankGiro Loterij, the VSB fund and SNS Reaal. UAR was developed in cooperation with IN10 Communicatie, Layar and DPI Animation House.
UAR is developed in cooperation with IN10 Communication, Layar and:
UAR was made possible with kind support of:
Testimonial VSBfonds. You can download the testimonial here
Planning
UAR is available in 8 cities in The Netherlands including Rotterdam and Amsterdam and is still growing. Since the beginning of 2011 there is an English-language version, and users can add objects themselves, such as their own home or other unusual buildings. The application is free and works like Wikipedia: users add content and thereby contribute to the expansion of the database. Users can also correct one another.
UAR, NAi Urban Augmented Reality applicatie
The Netherlands Architecture Institute and the Architecture Centre Amsterdam ARCAM will jointly launch the Amsterdam edition of the free 3D architecture application UAR (Urban Augmented Reality) on 11 November 2010. The free architecture application UAR shows what Amsterdam will be like, was like, or might have been like. > Read more...
