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Ascaya City Hall: Constructing a virtual civic image

Part 1 Project 2017
Gabriel Beard
 Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) | UK
The Ascaya City Hall provides a civic centre for a gated community just outside Las Vegas. Responding to the history of exaggerated neoclassical architecture used in American municipal buildings, virtual reality technology is used to propose a new way of experiencing civic architecture.

Informed by research of movement techniques in VR and a comparison between historical murals and contemporary virtual space, visitors experience an architecture where space and image merge.


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2017
Locating a city hall for the residents of Ascaya - a gated community just outside of Las Vegas
Subverting the traditional American city hall typology and the use of virtual reality.
Testing space through virtual architecture and how virtual environments can be become first person inhabitable representations of real typologies.
Virtual reality as the contemporary mural.
Inhabitable images and the ‘hardwiring’ of virtual and physical spaces.
Facilitating virtual immersion through technical design.
Re-directed walking and the application of positional tracking techniques in virtual reality.
Ascaya City Hall plan - Various functional follies are configured in a sprawling landscape.
The duality between the physical city hall and the virtual experiences of multiple visitors happening simultaneously.
THE ANIMATION - A single persons journey through the Ascaya City Hall.
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