Diseño y elaboración de una maqueta virtual de la biblioteca general de la Universidad Técnica de Manabí y construcciones aledañas

Abstract

This thesis is based on the “Design and Elaboration of a virtual model of the General Library Universidad Técnica de Manabí” and its outbuildings, in order to offer to the university collectivity an interactive instrument to guide them to know its location and the different areas that comprises, achieving a bigger interest from the users to occupy the buildings, mainly based on students, teachers, professionals and other people related with the University. In the realization of this virtual model, it was indispensable to count with the final arquitectural plans of the General Library, including lengths, heights and different levels of the building constructions, all of them manual measured with measured tapes and GPS. The design takes part from a 2D implantation and later becomes a 3D model using AutoCAD software, considering the heights of the buildings and the different levels of the land, in order to captured physical reality of the virtual model. It was used a 3D Studio Max software to obtain a rendering from different focal axes, and offering a large visualization of the General Library and its environment; and also a virtual route focused on the exterior and interior areas sequentially. In order to get a better result, it was used photorealism techniques including all real details of the elements and the surrounding landscape. Finally we count with an interactive guide that allows visualizing the access and the different exterior and interior areas of the General Library, in order to get a better knowledge and benefit of its facilities, and also be used like a matrix for future virtual designs of all the buildings of the Universidad Técnica de Manabí.