VVC2008VVC2008 | biacs3

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

VVC2008VVC2008 | Biomimicry

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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.

VVC2008VVC2008 | Concept

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SCALAR BREAKDOWN OF COMPONENTS

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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

Sector Division

ZOOM x 2

OPTION 2_OPTION 2_user B

ZOOM x 3

Point DivisionEach individual“sub strand’s” circumference is divided into points on a surface

OPTION 1_OPTION 1_user B

ZOOM x 3

VVC2008VVC2008 | Componentry Unpacked

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PARAMETRIC COMPONENTS B Each sector becomes a sub

cell. These cells can deviate depending on the quality or quantity of the message.

Sector Transformation

Refer to Surface Treatment

OPTION 2_OPTION 2_user B

ZOOM x 3

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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SURFACE TREATMENT

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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

VVC2008VVC2008 | Model Componentry

Model ComponentryModel Componentry | Studio Skin

Model ComponentryModel Componentry | Studio Skin

Model ComponentryModel Componentry | Studio Skin

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.

Model ComponentryModel Componentry | Interaction of Studio Participants

Model ComponentryModel Componentry | Studio Participation - uploads

Studio Participants

Studio Database

“core”

Data Links

Timeline

Greater interaction

Less interaction between

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.

Studio Participants

Model ComponentryModel Componentry | Studio Participation - uploads

Model ComponentryModel Componentry | Links-Database + Collective Learning

Model ComponentryModel Componentry | Links-Database + Collective Learning

A designated portion of each

students ‘tube’ corresponds

with the central core.

High level of studio

interaction. Data

being linked and

uploaded at a higher

rate.

Lover levels of

studio interaction

Model ComponentryModel Componentry | Surface Communication - Cells

Single Student - Plan

Single Student -

Elevation

Single Student - Rolled Out

Elevation

Single Student - Outer Skin

Message Detail

Week

VVC 2008 - Sectional Diagrams

Week

Digital FabricationDigital Fabrication | Rapid Prototype Model

ExhibitionExhibition | Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo Seville