Experiential Point: Home automation, UX and XR integration for a collaborative strategy

This paper aims to show an academic experiment with the verification of spatial use through user experience and collaborative virtual simulation of an urban microarchitecture: Experiential Point. An immersive and interdisciplinary experience is proposed with sixty-five students in the career of Architecture and Industrial Design, organizing them in teams to complete a proposal of an Urban Microarchitecture in seven weeks. Through a collaborative design agreement with international companies and universities, this work combines a strategy focused on user experience and extended reality as a resource within a hybrid design automation workshop. The design problem focuses on urban equipment with an emphasis on social aspects and the citizen needs. With the results of the 'Experiential Point' an interactive and collaborative design strategy is generated implementing the ecology of knowledge using all the senses of the student and the user to experience the spatial quality and efficiency of the proposal.