Virtual
Home

The designer of VH#10210 includes a deep analysis of background and reasoning for designing a virtual home. It states: “When moving into a real home, we ask ourselves, ‘What furniture would we use?’. The same applies in the virtual realm, however in a Virtual Home we ask ourselves, ‘What is furniture for?’” The proposal is for a virtually immersive web3 application, based on the character of its users, built in a 3D environment and used for work, organization, leisure, entertainment and connecting with other users. The jury writes: “The project is a complex and wide vision of a virtual housing system that shows a deep understanding of the possibilities that might come with technological development, The forward-thinking nature of the author, and the well-thought-out scenario of the future that is grounded in the current shift in thinking about virtual living, is appreciated. The vision shows a universal approach. It has a strong conceptual basis materialized in an extremely delicate environment that invites users to stay and recreate their own demands. The outcome blended the realistic idea of space and architecture into the unrealistic setting of digital space. The representation is sublime.” 

The proposal for Virtual Memory includes the statement: “A physical home nurtures our bodies….a virtual home should nurture our minds by responding to our virtual needs, which are: socializing, creating and resting.” The result is a collage of forms and connections that comprise an amalgamation of typologies and scenes. The jury writes: “The proposal has a Piranesi-esque quality to it, with interesting 3D spaces. The journey around the house would be like playing Monument Valley. Adapting to modular structures by using familiar elements of architecture both keeps the user on a familiar ground and creates unimaginable layouts. It is an intriguing series of spaces reminiscent of Escher's paintings; but instead of skewing mathematical proportions and Cartesian space, the proposal skews time and history as evidenced in formal components. The spaces are constructed with a logical system of juxtapositions rendering absurd and estranged sensa. The madness of stacking and interlocking of those elements somehow echoed with the spirit of the digital space. Meanwhile, the rationale of organizing programs and space still worked well for the prototype presented.”

The Neo-Dimension references the film Inception, and proposes a “loop” that creates a dreamscape cubic home, with mystical vistas, gravity-defying environments, and cozy interiors that float between reality and fantasy. It considers the 6 interior and 6 exterior faces of a geometrical cube as hosts, to 12 “active spaces”. The jury writes: “The subversion of the sense of orientation and gravity is a blow to other projects that depict the cliche of a house in the cliff or the mountain or any idyllic landscape. This is a very strong project because it invents rules on how a digital real estate realm may be constructed, defying the rules and constraints of the physical realm - gravity, physics. It does not transfer the ideal home in a digitized world, but instead constructs a new series of values. There are no illogical spaces like a bedroom, or bathroom - all the rooms are instead meaningful to a virtual space. It studies varying levels of security and privacy. It explores the limits of the virtual world, where none of our physical laws are applicable. The concept is elaborate and gives room to imagination and adventure. The chosen graphic language is very appropriate for the family of ideas at stake.”