Project Description

Our relationship with the built environment is generally understood, but the digital world is growing exponentially and changing our sense of place. We need places that blur the lines between the two environments, so that we can better understand their relationship to one another and envision exciting new possibilities.

ARCHI‐Caching is a game concept that mixes the real world with the virtual world by encouraging users to hunt for digital geocaches!

• Locate physical caches with QR codes or digital caches in AR/VR via compatible devices like mobile phones or headsets, and unlock hidden virtual architectural installations.
• Compete against others by acquiring sets of digital geocaches that unlock rare design‐oriented gameplay features and special rewards.
• Show off where you’ve been by leaving your digital signature at found caches.
• Discover a community of like‐minded individuals by tuning your desired cache sites to curated campaign themes based on healthy lifestyles, exploration, and social awareness.
• Contribute to the growing library of digital geocaches by submitting your own locations.

Engage with CRTKL business partners by aligning campaigns with their philanthropy goals for the purposes of sponsorship or commissioned projects.

Gaming engines can be effectively used as a tool to bridge the physical world with digital technologies. By creating spaces for hybrid environments to exist, they can enhance the experience of each user in an authentic and unique way, while simultaneously generating data from digital interactions. Unreal comes into play in this concept through the development of maps, digital caches, gameplay elements, pop‐up shops, architectural installations, and additionally serving‐as a conduit for analytical data collection. In the future, we anticipate leveraging Unreal’s technology to augment the community‐oriented aspect of the game on a mass scale.

By overlaying digitally designed elements onto physical spaces, different perspectives and dimensions of the built environment emerge, turning static spaces into interactive ones in a participatory fashion. New ideas can be conceptualized with more vivid interpretation and simulations can be made to illustrate their benefits. We generate value to the AEC industry not only by creating interest in reimagining the city, but also engaging the community in a uniquely digital framework. Through encouraging humanistic behaviors with digital elements, we invite participants to be partners in uncharted virtual territory, discovering and learning how users interact collaboratively.

External Resources:

• Video Music: www.Bensound.com
• Maps and city images: Cesium