Runner-up_ AIAS Trespa Design Competition, Miami 2009
In envisioning the DreaMeta as a miniature city, a pervasive corridor serves as the connecting tissue for physical spaces. This corridor is a unique composition of space-media walls, a mapping floor, and a monitoring ceiling, coated in four distinct colors: yellow, blue, green, and orange. It acts as a communicating circulation space where metaverse network systems are embedded—an interface easily re-programmable without depleting natural resources, offering exceptional flexibility.
This design allows for adaptation to market demand, ensuring successful usage for generations to come. The M-corridors, integral to this concept, enable users to register their virtual identities using Bluetooth mobile devices like cell phones on the space-media walls. This instant communication facilitates interaction with both the space itself and other users. Users can receive specific information and directions to spaces based on their needs.
The electronic access to the metaverse database archived by the M-corridors allows visitors to continue playing their avatars on mobile devices even after leaving the center. The potential poetics and aesthetics of the M-corridors offer phenomenological experiences. Games are played and exhibited on monitoring ceilings, players find inspiration on mapping floors, media is created and screened on space-media walls, and visitors learn from each other through these interactions. The M-corridors create a diverse range of experiences: youth are entertained, children are stimulated, couples explore, and families engage socially together.
