400,000 pounds of tomatoes per acre: prototyping an aquaponics Eco Tower in Second Life
Brendon Bilavio took to Second Life like a fish in water – somewhat literally. Let me explain..
“Future School of Finland” using realxtend to augment classrooms with virtual learning and community spaces
Almost exactly a year ago today, I published a post celebrating realxtend’s ability to enable 3D mesh imports – a post that remains the most popular on this site. Realxtend since took a deep dive into its code base, developing a custom viewer from...National School of Architecture of Marseille launches virtual school
It took me a while to stop laughing at these images for long enough to finish this post… What an exciting ‘virtual architecture’ lineup we have this weekend! On Saturday, the National School of Architecture of Marseille will be opening their new...85 avatars on an OpenSim, and onward to 100… 150…
Check out Adam Frisby’s post about OpenSim achieving 85 avatars on a single OpenSim this week, and their hopes of reaching 100 or even 150. According to the post, these major performance and stability enhancements are largely due to 3 fixes – 1.)...Cyberspace as a vibrant, social, interactive and collaborative ‘place’ for the already virtual discipline of architecture
Visiting an architectural masterpiece, or touring a building we helped design, is one of the many great rewards of architectural study and practice. Yet even if we think of ‘architecture’ as a rich, experiential, and tangible phenomenon, the daily...Architectural Educators from Portugal, USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Scotland, Denmark, Croatia, Russia, Italy, France, and Germany gather to discuss virtual architectural education
This was a truly remarkable session, deserving of greater coverage than this post, but this is a start! The group first gathered at Moira Hunter’s ArchiTECool parcel on Architecture Island, then to a Studio Wikitecture demo, then on to tour the work that...
Featured Machinima: A Virtual Medical Centre
Check out this brief macinima showing highlights of a recent tour I went on with Dr. Scott Diener’s in his Virtual Medical Centre. It is a painstakingly detailed build, with an impressive range of scripted elements that simulate real life medical procedures....
115+ Architecture Students Using Second Life at the University of Auckland School of Architecture and Planning
Here is a brief video showing some of the amazing work currently under development at the University of Auckland’s Putahi sim (SLurl) in Second Life, led by Professor Judy Cockeram. The University continues to leverage their virtual ‘Living...Architecture Students at Delaware Tech Design Sustainable Housing Prototypes for Cape Town, South Africa
The Delaware Technical & Community College has made a strong and successful debut in their use of virtual worlds in architectural education through a project led by Professor L.C. Weaverling’s (Profesora Farigoule in SL) ‘Architectural Design:...The Architecture of Virtual Education
Here is a video of the presentation I gave last weekend at the VWBPE convention , posted by tree.tv, in both a streaming format and high-def download, available here: http://www.treet.tv/shows/bpe/bpe2009_varchitecture_27mar09/ Other presentations captured by Tree.tv...