SUMMARY The starting point of improvement of city environment is the restructuralisation of traffic system, including creation of pedestrian areas. Urban, architectural and historical analysis are the base for their designing. It si necessary to find solutions for suitable connection of pedestrian areas and traffic systems, to create new aesthetic quality, to connect pedestrian nodes […]

SUMMARY As the automobile evolved in tandem with the modern architecture, it brought about myths, legends and new building types. However, has the car also responded to architecture? The car has significantly shaped the modern architectural vision, but was this a two-way relationship? Perhaps the most considerable contact between the built and mechanical environments was […]

Design strategy in industrial design – university environment

Martin Baláž, Zuzana Waszczuková Pergerová

SUMMARY The paper mainly focuses on the creation and formulation of a design strategy in a creative process, on multidisciplinary communication, personal experience and teaching methodology. An important although not the only result of our research is a university course Design Strategy in Industrial Design, intended for the 1st year of master’s studies in the […]

SUMMARY This article focuses on the use of virtual and mixed reality in transport design. The advancement in virtual reality hardware and software also enables more extensive use of this technology in the design process. The possibility to visualize new designs in real scale is especially useful with larger objects, such as cars and motorbikes, […]