diagrams by tripadvisor
SeatGuru.com offers a solution for airplanes: the site features floorplans and information on just about any configuration of airplane you can imagine. It offers detailed, color-coded seatmap graphics to help identify superior and substandard seats for your flight. Could that be applied for buildings, too?
2 comment(s):
Eh, I don't think it would help very much. A lot of building seating changes because the seating isn't set in a permanent place. The only other instance I can think of is concert seating, and they usually already have a seating chart on the website where you purchase tickets. This was a very good idea though for the plane seating, for most people who don't know the different classes of planes and such.
this is a smart idea. and maybe one-day, yes.
but until then, i think until 'the building' becomes more about the user/user experience; only then will the architect no longer reign supreme.
until then- architectural photography in itself is still such a 'niche' area/money-maker/marketing tool for the architectural profession... that this user group would either have to be transposed onto a new level of work with 'the architect'... who must now work with the photographer throughout the whole designing process- because now architects' must think how their buildings will be represented on way-finding websites or other media designed to be viewed by 'the public'.
and therefore. the 'the public' must be able to obtain these photos for websites such as satguru.com. thus rendering copyrights fees for architectural photographs obsolete... then again we could just be drifting into a new age of copyrights...
Post a Comment