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The VVC focuses on public
behaviours that sustain
creative communities. Virtual
environments, when supported by
a spatially unifying concept,
offer the possibility that
learning communities in the
digital city can be both more
dispersed and more intensely
related than heretofore. While
sites such as facebook allow
viral clustering of individuals
with like interests, we ask
what kind of relationships
between real and virtual
environments offer support to
learning communities. We have
been exploring relationships
between real environments,
rich in sensory and spatial
information and virtual
environments developed
around emerging communication
software application Quick-
Links that is information
rich.
VVC2008VVC2008 | Introduction
Visualizing the Virtual Concourse. Linking the real and virtual environments through
architectural intelligence. Visualizing the Virtual Concourse focuses on public
behaviours that sustain creative communities. Virtual environments, when supported by
a spatially unifying concept, offer the possibility that learning communities in the
digital city can be both more dispersed and more intensely related than ever before.
While social networking sites such as facebook and flickr allow for viral clustering
of individuals with like minded interests, we ask what kind of relationships between
real and virtual environments offer support to learning communities. In Visualizing
the Virtual Concourse we are exploring relationships between real environments,
rich in sensory and spatial information and virtual environments - the realm of
architecture - and opportunities for using architectural intelligence in virtual
space using emerging communication software applications such as Quick-Links that
are information rich collaborative tools. The VVC experiments and demonstrates
potentials for architecture beyond conventional accommodative opportunities, re-
assessing current modes of operation and re-contextualizing them within the virtual,
but always relating that back to material, physical realities. Through VVC we propose
the creation of user generated, web 2.0 visual models for engagement and self-
monitoring that offers the possibility of positive new linkages between material and
virtual space.
VVC2008VVC2008 | Biomimicry
Lily Anther Late ProphaseAnthers are the male reproductive structures of flowering plants that produce pollen. Each anther is deeply bilobed, and each lobe contains two structures called microsporangia. At the center of each microsporangium are numer-ous mother pollen cells that, after undergoing meiosis, form microspores (pollen grains). Nutrients are provided to a developing cell by the columnar tapetum cells that surround each microsporangium. During the late prophase stage, the tapetum cells are usually microscopically visible. Upon maturing, the pollen grains are released by the anther and made available for transport to a female reproductive organ called the stigma.
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The torus id made up of “strands”. each strand representing a VVC studio. By placing them next to one another it is easy to see patterns of behabviour. Similarities and differences.
Zoom into Cross SectionEach VVC “strand” is comprised of users/avatars. These Avatars are represented with “sub strands.”
In the center there is a spine that represents the collective knowledge.
Each individual“sub strand’s” circumference is divided sectors
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Point DivisionEach individual“sub strand’s” circumference is divided into points on a surface
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VVC2008VVC2008 | Componentry Unpacked
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Sector Transformation
Refer to Surface Treatment
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Volumetric TransformationThe radius changes depending on the number of messages sent per week. The greater the participation the more presence an element has.
Volumetric TransformationThe radius changes depending on the number of hits on links per week. The greater the participation the stronger the core becomes.
Volumetric TransformationThe radius changes depending on the number of links per week. The greater the links the stronger the secondaty structure becomes.
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RESEARCH VECTOR FIELD
Each individuals research, either through links, or messages is given a vector in relation to a point field. The average of the individuals research bends the studios nucleus. The vector field gets reorientated each week like a c-plane providing consistancy
Research field such as biology, it, liturature, mathematics
Plan of studio streams showing deviations in research.
MATHEMATICS
BIOLOGYIT
PHYSICS
Model ComponentryModel Componentry | Interaction of Studio Participants
The outer skin is an aggregative model of the inner componentry. The outer skin is an aggregative model of the inner componentry. The outer cells of the model correspond to the documented The outer cells of the model correspond to the documented interactions of the studio participants within. The outer skin has interactions of the studio participants within. The outer skin has a time-based correlation to it’s studio and could be used as a a time-based correlation to it’s studio and could be used as a visual marker between studios.visual marker between studios.
Data links
added by
participants
into the core
of the studio.
These links
represent
moments of
interaction -
data imprinted
into the memory
of the class.
High level of studio
interaction. Data
being linked and
uploaded at a higher
rate.
Lover levels of
studio interaction
Single Student - Plan
Single Student -
Elevation
Single Student - Rolled Out
Elevation
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Message Detail
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VVC 2008 - Sectional Diagrams