News From Arch Virtual
The latest in architectural visualization and virtual reality application development.
Autodesk in Second Life
I just returned from Las Vegas, after having the honor of closing Autodesk CEO Carl Bass' keynote presentation with a Second Life tour of our Crescendo Design Virtual Studio in front of 6,500+ attendees. The presentation concluded with 2 separate live feeds from...
Second Life Foundations: A Primer for new Architects and Builders
Virtual Suburbia and The Arch will be co-hosting an informal gathering, to welcome new architects to Second Life, and to bring people who love architecture together. Chip Poutine, Keystone Bouchard and invited guests will be providing helpful tools, tips, contacts,...
On the Move
I sincerely apologize for the delay in entries. We just completed our cross-country move from Wisconsin to California to begin working exclusively within Second Life. I am now working in Berkeley for Clear Ink on some exciting architecture-related SL projects, and...
Prim, What Do You Want to Be?
Some predictions via BIMania HERE caught my eye this morning. I'm still trying to digest their meaning, but I think Miguel touches on some interesting points, pertinent to the concentration of this blog: "there will be an ever growing demand on digital designers... If...
Architect Writes Science Fiction about VR in Professional Pracitce – via Gwyneth Llewelyn
THIS STORY provides an interesting glimpse into an architect's perception of how the future will transform the practice of architecture. I think the dates he predicts are a bit distant though. He suggests that his fictitious firm started using virtual reality in 2014....
Virtual Mies: Farnsworth House in Second Life (via Content Confessional)
Built by: Maximilian Milosz To see the house click: Farnsworth House at Amicitia (220, 220) Via Content Confessional
Oblivion and Half Life: Importing Models, by Digitally Distributed Environments
THESE PEOPLE are doing some very important work. I think they're admittedly on a steep learning curve, but they're ascending rapidly, and are definitely making me dream about the possibilities.
Background Part 2: Virtual Studio
This is an animation of our virtual studio in Plush Rho, which essentially serve as our 3D website and general meeting space. We tried to make the studio itself into a living diagram of sustainability by including a living roof system, passive strategies, pellet...
aloft: Raising the Bar
Starwood's new virtual aloft hotel is quite possibly the most comprehensive blend of RL architecture and Second Life the metaverse has seen to-date. While this project has been widely covered throughout the blogosphere, it represents a nearly perfect manifestation of...
RL Architects in Second Life Group
For those of you who recently joined the RL Architects in Second Life group, welcome! I sincerely hope this will become a worthwhile and productive group. There are so many opportunities and challenges in this particular niche, it seems a timely and worthwhile effort...
Versu Richelieu’s 72 hour build!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/WB5EFp7NbP0] Versu will be building, sleeping and living SL for 72 hours straight during this demonstration of the Intel Core 2 Duo processors from a live window on 5th Avenue in New York City. Check out the live feed HERE. Why cover...
Meet Vittorio Barbarino – RL Italian Architect
Vittorio has merged his real life architecture practice with Second Life, and has also started building SL-specific content as well. Check out his RL studio HERE Check out his Virtual Studio HERE [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/uRMBduPOFAU]
My Very First Machinima: Virtual Tour of the Crescendo Design Neighborhood
Here is a quick sample video of our virtual neighborhood. This is just a test, and will hopefully be followed by many more educational videos describing the benefits of sustainable design.
Author’s Background: Crescendo Design, Using SL as Professional Tool
I am the co-founder and partner of Crescendo Design, a multi-disciplinary design studio with a specialty in sustainable design. We take on a fairly wide variety of different assignments types, but have been focusing most recently on designing ‘green’ or...
Cornerstone
Welcome! I'm Second Life Architect Keystone Bouchard, (Jon Brouchoud in real life). I intend to focus this blog on my experiences of using Second Life as a professional tool in my architectural practices and beyond. I've only been in SL for about 3 months, but it has...
