The collaborative design platform protocol: a protocol for a mixed reality installation for improved incorporation of laypeople in architecture

Abstract

We present the conceptual design and implementation of the Collaborative Design Platform Protocol (CDPP), a communication protocol that offers the synchronisation of virtual worlds between two mixed reality peers. The CDPP is applied to connect the Collaborative Design Platform (CDP), a design tool which supports the architectural design process in an early stage, with the immersive Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE) display, where the design is visualised in life-size. This creates a prototype which enables a cost-efficient and easily comprehensible presentation of the early-staged design, and thus significantly simplifies the incorporation of laypeople in the early design process. By this means, the creative capabilities of laymen are exploited to a greater extent.