Community and the Vernacular

Final Major Project: My year final 3 project started with the creation of a spatial proposition in the given site of the abandoned Artiach cookie factory in Zoratzaurre, Spain. The challenge was the how to merge both the physical and digital worlds together to help revitalise the connection between people and space through a collaboration with students from IED, which proceeded by creating two worlds. The pavilion utilises how architecture in the virtual world is made up of microscopic polygons and triangles, meanwhile oriented to a situated GPS reality through sun path analysis to bridge the natural (the real) and the man made (the virtual) realm. Each pavilion in the physical world will be suspended across the factory as separate entities to represent how the communities felt disregarded in the urban regeneration of the island. Under every pavilion is a headset that will exhibit the virtual space. In the virtual world also known as the United pavilion, will be suspended together in the east void of the artiach, celebrating the importance of collaboration, especially in design to help represent the capabilities of the community to inform and transform its topography. The video below shows a walkthrough of the virtual space, and is also available in VR :))