A Simultaneous Multiuser Collaborative Immersive Design Environment: Extended Reality and Digital Photogrammetry for the Valorisation of Heritage Sites

Immersive design, an innovative notion deriving from the gaming industry (Ceylanlı et al., Proceedings of Architecture, Archaeology and Contemporary City Planning (AACCP) Multi-Layered Settlements, Lulu, Raleigh, 2019 [1]), has recently invaded the architectural design practice, generating at times innovative architectural solutions and perhaps a new style which is not widely accepted. This new style has generated a strenuous opposition to innovative tools within the rather conservative architectural composition research field. In fact, our interest is not in the possibility of generating complex forms using these technologies, but rather in their deployment for a proper representation of heritage buildings or contexts, within a design environment, where to define conformal and contextually placed design solutions.