International experts awarded the research of Bartosz Śliwecki, an employee of the Faculty of Architecture of the Białystok University of Technology (PB), who studied architecture created in virtual reality as part of his doctorate.

Bartosz Śliwecki has been included in a small group of participants of workshops for doctoral students as part of the ECAADE (Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe) conference in Berlin.

During the two-day online workshop, over a dozen architecture and urban planning experts from Portugal, Germany, USA, England and Finland assessed the ideas for doctoral dissertations submitted by participants. The specialists decided that the research proposal presented by the BUT employee was one of the best solutions.

Bartosz Śliwecki will investigate how people perceive architectural space in the virtual world. The results of his research can be used to improve newly designed games, create user-friendly simulations or VR (Virtual Reality) worlds.