Sunday, January 30, 2011

Spat: Initial concepts for exhibit

We are proposing a simulation of one of his buildings inside of the space. We want to build a miniature "house" inside of the space with the ground floor on the first floor of the gallery and the upstairs gallery space will be used as the upper level of the "house" and the outside garden. Each section of the "house" will contain a blurb about why things are the way they are. AR will be used to enrich the experience of being "inside" or "outside" one of his houses (possibly such as seeing through a "window" to the "outside" while you're "inside the house."

If we build the house, we have two possibilities for the app.

1- If we build the house to look like the actual house, we could use an AR app that would be interactive with the various parts of the exhibit, for example:
Strong men replace the pillars and hold up the structure, look out the windows and see the sun, the roof garden becomes a garden of Eden or a rainforest, the open floor plan becomes the open ocean and the extended second floor could appear to stretch for miles.
2- OR we could build the house to look like the actual house and the various elements would all be color coded when you looked at them through an ipad/app (all the pillars would be red, the garden purple, etc.)

Either of those possibilities could be interchanged so the AR becomes the actual built elements and the actual house elements become the app.

The following photo shows some of our proposed floor plan and layout for the exhibit. 


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