Digital Collaborative Studio: 4 Years of Practice

摘要

Context and objectives. For the fourth time this year, the University of Liege and the National school of architecture of Nancy have organized a distant collaborative architectural studio, gathering students in architecture and building engineering from the two institutions. This workshop's assignment has teams of 3 to 5 students (made up of students from the two locations) designing a building (given a set of specification) during 3 months by collaborating remotely. The distant collaboration is supported by several tools : e-mails for asynchronous exchanges, videoconferencing, chat and phone for synchronous collaboration and two original devices : the Virtual Desktop, a collaborative multimodal environment and the CRTI-Web, a bespoke document management svstem dedicated to architecture.