insomniac

hello guys

i have a graduation project about the future housing and homing.. " a future imagination habitat".
and i suggested using VR in its real furniture, i mean we dont have to build a chair from real wood, we'll just model it from fiber optics that is capable to change color & texture too. we wont have to change our furniture any more just couse we dont like it because we will be able to just "program it" the way we like in our favorte color and our favorite material... :gebigeek:
we wont have real wals any more, it'll be just an image we build using special VR devices and then we will be able to re design our home the way we like. :ngesleep:
this is my idea about the future home, if any body have any information about this idea please may he send it to me ? i accept suggestions too and new ideas.....

thanx guuys

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crazy homeless guy

i admittedly do not know a lot about fiber optics, but what makes it the best suited material for the chair? can you simply program it with a computer to change shape and texture at you leisure? whenever i think of fiber optics i always see a picture of the thin glass tubes that has been promoted as the next best thing since sliced bread ever since i was in grade school. ...is this wrong?

ts.

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insomniac

hi there
i didnt mean the simple shape of the fiber optics u imagined, i ment an advance shape of it... that can accept electrical signals which changes it's color and texture (not shape).

i didnt say that it exist now, i am just imagining it... it could be any other matirial... just the concept i am talking about.
tahnx 4 ur time [img]eek2.gif[/img]

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nisus

I suggest you read these books:

- Being Digital (N.Negroponte): http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...206480-2108667
- City of Bits (W.Mitchell):
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...206480-2108667
- recently another great book about future research was released, but I forgot it's name... It got a silverlike caft with a hole in it...


Or check out these links:
- http://www.rnw.nl/science/html/starlab010409.html
- http://www.starlab.org/ (not online for the moment) --> company specialised in 'deep future research'

rgds

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Virtual walls raises serious issues about privacy.

insomniac

thanx guys 4 the great link u applied me with.

keep on going, future is waiting ....

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Richard McCarthy

I think this is a dangerous path to take as research topic. I mean, it will only become more nihilistic in nature about architecture, you could always argue what's the point of having human around when we can just be strap to bed and have virtual simulation on our brain/nerves and forget about all those pesky traveling to work thing (or shopping, or going out for picnic) because "Immersive Virtual Reality will solve all our problem"......

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gulgamesh

Technology always causes us to reevaluate what our involvement with and place in architecture is. I gather Richard McCarthy would be less than happy with your suggestion, and thats fine. What your suggesting is taking a programmable environment to the extreme, you moving on from such basic's programmable lighting, and heating which people have embraced to something more extreme. Which people may not. At least by throwing the idea out in the open to be explored and critiqued your adding a valuable contribution to what we might consider the limits of 'technology' in out lives.

There is the dicotomy in your average house, where people want a house to look old, victorian whatever! but in their 'yee olde house' they pack in computers dvd players video's plasma screen's and so on. I think if you do push ahead with this idea your going to get some very strong responces, but these might shed more light on the relationship between people and technology than your actual idea.

insomniac

thanx for your great opinion...
i already toldmy doctors at college about my idea and i must told you that some of them like it verry much, and the most of them standed againest it from the very begining...
the subject is verry critical and will have lots of opinions.

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joseph alexander

Something that would be interesting would be simply re-looking at the concept of wall and materiality. Look at what blur building intends to do. Simply taking a sense, isolating it, in this case feeling, and using that to define space. Right now I'm working on a project where we're defining space by sound. We're building an installation that, as you walk through it, defines its dimensions by rustling walls that are activated by your footsteps. I've always found that if you try to define a virtual or amorphous space it always becomes a problem as to what it's being made out of. Other concepts of space allow you a greater range of flexibility while offering a viable junction from virtual to the real. You can still model stuff and have fun with VR but when you present you're final thesis you won't be run down by the common problem of what it's going to be made out of.

Good Luck,

-Joe

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