Nice video about a virtual building in Second Life called ‘Alexander Beach’. It was built as a place of gathering for students of the Princeton University. Looking at the forms of the building, very similar to what you can find in the state of the art architecture of the real world (e.g. on WAN), I wonder which universe inspires the other. Today’s architecture constantly pushes the limits of the possible, inventing more and more improbable forms, disequilibrated, liberated from natural laws. On the other hand, Alexander Beach has this organic shape inspired by nature, like in many new buildings. The two extreme influences, sort of ‘virtual anti-gravity’ and ‘earthly organism’, are paradoxically married harmoniously in contemporary architecture.
Alexander Beach – Inspired Architecture from The VBA on Vimeo.
