ON THE HORIZON THERE IS AN INTERSECTION OF PHYSICAL SPACES ENHANCED BY DIGITAL MEANS. WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF ALTERNATIVE REALITIES COINED AS MIXED REALITY (MR) IT IS NOT A STRETCH OF THE IMAGINATION TO CONFIRM THAT THE WAY WE DO ARCHITECTURE WILL CHANGE FUNDAMENTALLY. WITH THE ABILITY OF DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTS TO BE OVERLAID ON THE EXISTING WORLD, IT CAN COMPLETELY ALTER A SPACE WITH LITTLE EFFORT INSTANTANEOUSLY. BY UTILIZING ROBOTIC ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS IN CONJUNCTION WITH MIXED REALITY ENVIRONMENTS, VERTICAL REALITY DOES NOT NEED TO DEPEND ON THE HAND OF THE DESIGNER. THE ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES OF THE USER’S IMAGINATION ALLOWS ARCHITECTURE TO BE FREED FROM THE CONSTRAINTS OF THIS WORLD.
THIS PROJECT IS LOCATED IN TOKYO, THE MOST TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED CITY ON EARTH. THE JAPANESE PEOPLE A--RE OFTEN INTRODUCED TO NEW GADGETS AND ARE COMFORTABLE INSERTING THEM INTO THEIR LIFESTYLE. INTRODUCING OUR FUTURISTIC ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPT WILL NOT ONLY BE A WELCOME ADVANCE OF TECHNOLOGY IN THEIR LIFESTYLES BUT CAN SIMULTANEOUSLY CONNECT THEM TO A MORE TRADITIONAL AND CONSERVATIVE WAY OF LIFE INDICATIVE OF RURAL JAPAN. MIXED REALITY IN CONJUNCTION WITH RESPONSIVE ARCHITECTURE CAN BRING THESE TWO WORLDS TOGETHER. VERTICAL REALITY IS A SITELESS PIECE OF ARCHITECTURE, FOR AS THE TECHNOLOGY STARTS TO SPREAD THROUGHOUT OTHER ADVANCED CITIES IT WILL SEAMLESSLY MELD INTO OUR LIFESTYLE.
CONCEPTUAL PLANNING
By designing an extremely efficient blank space when we can impose whatever program people need at a specific time. Therefore why we should build anything at all if Mixed Reality can stretch these possibilities to another level? Through a flexible approach to design that can provide the sustainable idea of saving material and time of construction, Vertical Reality is an urban intervention at the meeting point of Mixed Reality and robotic architecture that allows the spaces to be used for different purposes and need. Rem Koolhaas addressed the notion that programmatic adjacencies are arbitrary in the modern skyscraper. Vertical Reality together with Mixed Reality adds another level of depth to the experience utilizing virtual alterations on physical elements. It had an efficient design that is able to use a plethora of programs. Utilizing a completely flexible structure and a moldable interior it can adapt to whatever creation is needed. With the technology provided by Mixed Reality, a combination between visual graphic and a tactile dreamscape can be achieved. Due to its abilities to conform to whatever shape and form, the skyscraper can function as anything from an office to a park.
A LOOK INSIDE MIXED REALITY
