News From Arch Virtual
The latest in architectural visualization and virtual reality application development.
Architecture Competition Gets Results
Quite a few quality entries in the Meltori Editore architecture competition, recently organized by Mario Gerosa (Frank Koolhaas in SL). [youtube= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Glm-iaTDg&eurl=] Via Virtual Architecture Heritage
Weekly Architecture Meeting Thursday at 2:00 PM SL-time (PDT)
This week, we'll be trying out a meeting at 2:00 PM SL-time (PDT) on Architecture Island (last week's 6:00pm time wasn't very popular). I'm in the process of verifying a guest presentation, and will provide more details as soon as I know more. Hope to see you there!
Architecture and Design Competition in Second Life
What? Spatially interesting and aesthetically independent pieces of architecture are sought from the inhabitants of the digital parallel world that has almost five million participants. The competition is open for all. Why? The aim of the competition is to explore new...
‘Oh So Fresh and Clean,’ My Abodo is Greener than Yours!
Within 10 minutes, I had my adobo customized to be 'Oh So Fresh and Clean'. When I started, it was an 'Enemy of the Planet'. Whew! What a great way to end the week, saving the planet in cyberspace!
Virtual Replication of a $3M Real World House
Interesting article on Coldwell Banker's Second Life presence, including the replication of this $3 million dollar home, on ABC News - check out the story HERE.
Beautiful Data as Virtual Architecture
[youtube = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy90VxgWTP0] Taking the idea of reflexive architecture a step further, perhaps virtual architecture could not only be sensitive and dynamic to the movement of its occupants, but capable of incorporating real time data streams,...
The Corporate Game
A very interesting post by IBM Eightbar's Ian Hughes (epredator Potato) on Terra Nova regarding the perceived differences and similarities between real life corporate environments and 'games' or virtual worlds. Is there an architectural equivalent to this discussion?...
Architecture Events on Google Calendar
We've now added a shared Google Calendar for all things architecture and design in Second Life. Please let me know of upcoming events the group would be interested in, and I'll add it here!...
Weekly Architecture Discussions – Thursdays at 6PM SL-time
Every Thursday at 6:00 PM SL-Time (PDT) The Architecture group will be hosting weekly meetings, starting this week in the Wikitecture gathering space on Architecture Island. If you are interested in moderating a parallel meeting to accomodate additional time zones, or...
Googie Architecture + Good Bad Movies = C3 Sky Cinema Fly-In
This is an exception to the norm for The Arch, but I can't resist - I think it's a truly native use of SL, and well worth a visit. If Googie Architecture, sci-fi, horror and/or good-bad old school cinema is your thing, Sky Cinema fly-in theater will be your favorite...
GeekMeet Post Mortem: ‘Reflexive Architecture’ on InfoWeek
Great post by Mitch Wagner (link) on InformationWeek about the GeekMeet presentation I gave at Dr. Dobbs on 'Reflexive Architecture'. The entire event was conducted using Second Life's new Voice Client in the Firstlook Viewer (download here). It was a remarkable...
Architecture CAD Model Importing Now Possible!
….will be a headline on this blog someday. We’re not there (yet), but now that I have your attention, I have a favor to ask. For the time being, let’s not focus on what we can’t do in Second Life, and take a look at what we can do there that we can’t as easily or as...
Swarm Architecture in Second Life, via Interactive Architectures
Virtual Interactive Architectures: Emergent Forms - self organizing structures "...I started thinking about how we could take advantage of the unique environmental characteristics of SL to create a self-organizing emergent structure. This structure might consist of...
UgoTrade’s Coverage of Virtual Architecture
UgoTrade has been doing some interesting research and reporting on virtual architecture, including a new post today (link) including coverage of the reflexive architecture installation, the Cntrl-Shift-07 competition, Theory Shaw, the Wikitecture progress, as well as...
Reflexive Architecture Demo @ Dr. Dobbs Island
Tomorrow, July 24th at 8AM SL-Time (PDT) I'll be giving a demo of the 'Reflexive Architecture' interactive installation I've been working on as an extension of the Architectural Jazz piece. In real life, we typically experience architecture and music in a passive...
Modern Day Cities Being Recreated in SL
Great post over at Kzero about the rapidly growing number of real life city recreation and augmentation projects currently underway in Second Life. Read it HERE. All is well on the virtual frontier for architects and planners!
