Interactive Structures : Visualizing Structural Behavior Version 2.0

Understanding structures is core to the education of the professional architect and engineer.

Using three-dimensional computer generated models, animations, audio narration, and interactive quizzes, this unique product explains the fundamentals of structural behavior and analysis in an easy-to-understand manner.

Interactive Structures utilizes a multi-media format that permits users to draw a direct relationship between structural analysis theory and its practical application within existing buildings. This approach is better suited to the skills, disposition and learning needs of architecture, non-engineering and entry-level engineering students.

New to this version are the addition of metric measurements and upgraded functionality of quizzes and exercises.

Twenty-four building structures designed by renowned architects are also modeled to show the variety of structural types and behavior.

Shahin Vassigh; Buffalo, NY
A civil engineer and the Co-Director of the Center for Virtual Architecture at the SUNY Buffalo. Her research focuses on structural and architectural design, as well as the application of digital media to structural pedagogy and instructional material. Her work has been published in Architectural Design, Teaching with Technology and Architecture Research Centers Consortium on-line Journal.