Missions

This recruitment is part of the PERCILUM project, the general aim of which is to develop new immersive tools for visualising and understanding lighting environments. At the crossroads of educational, scientific and technical issues, the aim is to reduce the difference in visual perception between a real scene and the same scene viewed through immersive visualisation devices. These tools will make it possible to improve the teaching of lighting environments and subsequently to facilitate decision-making for those involved in lighting. The assignments are part of task 4 of the PERCILUM project, the aim of which is to assess the learning capacity of architecture students on the basis of teaching scenarios previously defined in task 1 of the project and in relation to different presentation media, the content of which was developed in the form of images in task 3. The experiments carried out will assess the way in which innovative immersive digital tools for visualising lighting environments contribute to improving understanding of the issues surrounding lighting environments in architecture. The educational objective is to introduce architecture students, via images, to architectural design approaches that take into account the sensitive and aesthetic components of light in the built space, in conjunction with the quantitative dimension.

Activities

In order to carry out these tasks, it will be necessary to : - Complete the state of the art of the project - Contribute to the development of the experimental protocol and participate in its operational implementation on digital devices: adaptation of the protocol to the specificities of digital playback systems - Implement the experimental protocol and analyse the results - Organise group work meetings on the method and the analysis of the data collected - Participate in the promotion of the results of the research through communications in international conferences and scientific articles.

Skills

This proposal is aimed at holders of a doctorate in architecture who are familiar with the issues of natural light, pedagogy and the use of immersive tools such as virtual reality headsets. Specific skills: - Ability to work independently, organisational skills - Understanding of the educational issues surrounding natural light in architecture - Technical knowledge of virtual reality, image processing, statistical analysis and data processing - Interest in working in a multi-disciplinary team - Fluency in spoken and written English (presentations and publications).

Work Context

Host structure and location: the Centre de Recherche Nantais Architectures Urbanités (CRENAU) is the Nantes team of the Ambiances, Architectures, Urbanités AAU-UMR CNRS 1563 laboratory. It is based at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Nantes (http://aau.archi.fr/crenau). Project: PERCILUM is funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) as part of the 2019 call for generic projects. It is being carried out by a multidisciplinary team of researchers from four laboratories: The Ambiances, Architectures, Urbanités laboratory (AAU, UMR 1563) at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture (ENSA) in Nantes; the Laboratoire des Sciences du Numérique de Nantes (LS2N, UMR 6004) at the University of Nantes; the Laboratoire de Tribologie et Dynamique des Systèmes (LTDS) at the École Nationale Supérieure des Travaux Publics de l'État in Vaulx-en-Velin; and the Environnement Ville Société laboratory (EVS, UMR 5600) at the University of Lyon. The project began in April 2020 and will run until September 2025. It is coordinated by Céline DROZD, a researcher from the Ministry of Culture in the AAU laboratory at ENSA Nantes.

Constraints and risks

You will be expected to travel to carry out experiments and/or give presentations at scientific events in France and other European countries.