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ARCHITECTURE PROJECT!!!

The project finds its foundation in the consideration, the analysis and the réinterprétation of all your ideas exposed on the wiki. The strong involvementof the Japanese students motivated our choice to concentrate the project around the Japanese architecture, by taking for base the house, the garden, and the city. It is then a question of proposing to the users a course around these constituent places, which become at the same moment support of an exhibition, and a spatial translation of the fundamental notions of the Japanese architecture. The concepts of flexibility, fluidity, of phenomenality and impermanence find then a new writing thanks to the tools which proposes the virtual. The appeal to the scripts and to reflexive architecture allows the spatial experiment, but its use is not free: the established dynamism allows to significate to the avatar what is the identical and singular character of the place in which it evolves. In this way, it is a translation, by the virtual, of the identity of the place.

The transition between the reception of the site and the project is made through a space plug, only accessible by teleport. Its voluntarily closed character assures a dumping in the story that the project wants to tell: more than a simple place of distribution, it begins the spatial experiment by proposing, for every installation, one note - card, and a visual information.

THE CROSS. The essential structure of the course is outlined such a ribbon, a metaphor of the famous wave painted by Hokusai, who gets bigger to create platforms for the avatar. As a consequence the road becomes an active zone. It dilates to create some kind of breaks in the place. They participate in the process of réinterprétation while telling the genesis of the project. These places become at the same time susceptible to answer the need of sociabilisation: they allow the avatar to sit down, to discuss, or simply to contemplate the drawn landscape.

THE GARDEN. One of the characteristics of the Japanese garden lies in the choice of vegetables, which have to mark of strong contrasts according to the seasons, so as to mark the temporality of the place. The entitled installation " the Garden " proposes to the avatar a forest of bamboo, among which the height and the color changewhen he approches. The rhythm of the seasons is so suggested, but the temporal dimension abandoned any analogical character. The course in the garden introduces the notion of duration, the one who is determined by the avatar, the one of the lived space. At the back of the forest of bamboo takes place a small building, a réinterprétation of the contemplative garden. It illustrates the traditional use of the folding screen during festivities, as that of the bloom of cherry trees, to create short-lived places. The folding screen becomes here a wall, which opaqueness is modified with the contact of the avatar. The creation of filters then comes to bound places in a place which is not one, while proposing a different perception from the garden situated forward.

THE HOUSE. The Japanese traditional house becomes famous for its flexibility: the mobility of its partitions assures the space an adequacy to needs. The réinterprétation of the house wants to be a place of exhibitionand a spatial experiment around the notion of modularity. The partitions of the house, the support of the display, only appear to the approach of the avatar. The avatar so determines its own course in the place, its own experience of the space. In return, the appearance of a partition comes to redirect the avatar, so establishing a dialogue between the user and the space. The exhibition in itself gives way to images of the Japanese family life in their house. The place so enters adequacy with the story which he wishes to tell: the image makes sign and offers interpretative tracks for the understanding of the constituted space.

THE CITY. The installation of the city illustrates the lightning growth of the contemporary Japanese city. On the static objects, buildings, come to overlap objects in perpetual movement, engendering a growth of the number of information which passes on the city. The initial image of the built disappears then behind the movement, the stream, the brilliant and sound phenomena. The avatar enters then in an immersive structure, or its own movement find echo in the stake in movement of the city, generates its growth and participates in the accumulation of the passed on information.

In that way, the course established around these three installations allows certainly an opening on the Japanese culture, but it is also a question of proposing a new reading. The project offers an answer at the request of the students while making them perceive their own culture under a different angle, that of the apprehension of the oriental culture by a Westerner.

Hi, Im Sara. I think the cross, gerden, house and city sounds good. I also agree with those opinions. What is the most important when we make architecture project is that we should take the places we can communicated with each other easily into consideration. But, I think we dont really communicate with each other even now, so let's take an action more to know each other:) SL is very nice mean to know other countries.

Hi, Im Sara. Thank you, Jinyi and Julya. I like our flag and team name:) I feel now we are combined with each other. So, why dont you make our building? How do you feel about it? I attached the picture and wrotd down some ideas Im imaging in my mind below link.

Hello, this is Jinyi. For several weeks, we talked about our team's flag and name. Those who said their thoughts on the below link say the fallowing flag that is needed to change a little in "TEAM 10" is fine. And also, the team name is "SHARING MINDS". WoW~ ^^

=Team 9&10 Building Ideas=

Hi Im Sara from team 10. Please check this flag I made. It is not so good yet, but I think it is good to use puzzle pecies because now we get connected with each other, team 9 and team 10. So, they stand for the connection of each of us and the colors show each of us minds. How do you feel about it? Im looking forward to hearing from you.:) And,I think some team members dont really appear on SL because some of them might be busy or some of them might dont really know how to connect and use SL. So, I think roles JK made is nice for us! I havent sent e-mail to my team mate yet, but I'll try it. I would like to talk to you about anything, so I'll talk about aspects of Japanese society that I think would be useful in the new society. In Japan, there are so many hot springs. I think you know it or just hear the name, anyway it is one of bathes. It makes us so relaxed and help cure us(eg, stiff shoulders,bruise, weariness, cold constitution and so on..) I think if hot spring spreads in new society, most people get to go there after they are tired with work and lay in a hot spring and feel out of strees and relaxed. I would like to other team mate story. So, please tell us aspects of your country society that you think would be useful in the new world.

Hi I’m Ashley in KGU. I’m going to talk about Japanese character that is often misinterpreted today. Some people, who are foreign or sometimes Japanese, say that Japanese are too shy, do not have their opinion and always follow other. Surely it may be correct and perhaps I’m also such a person but I think it is not all bad and sometimes it is good. For example Japanese are cooperative and can adapt to other people mixing their and other’s thinking. Therefore I do not feel good when I hear that it is wrong points of Japanese not to comment their view definitely. I want other people to understand such a my opinion. Of course it is not good only to agree with other people, not to think and say nothing, so it is certainly important for them to make an effort to talk bout their idea clearly. Especially in my case, I am not good at talking about my view because of afraid if other people criticize me, so please misunderstand. Perhaps there are many Japanese alike me. I want to complete something with everyone not by one person although there may be many misunderstand and we may meet difficulty of difference of culture.

HI, my name is Jinyi from team9. I made some pages for team 9 and 10. Because, as you know, team 9 and 10 combined, we need new pages, I think. I hope teamwork will be good. That's why I made pages. But if you don't like, we can get rid of this. Because these are just my own thoughts. Say what you want on the discussion menu. If there is no response, it won't be removed. If you're OK with this page, PLZ fill the available time on the table. And make sure to link your own page including your introduction. I knew there is lots, lots of information on one page that couldn't recognize at once. So I want to make it clear to see who you are. If we link our introduction or personal things on our own page, others can go to the person's page and see it in detail. Anyway, feel free to talk on the discussion menu.

Hi!! This is Mia. I like flag made by Julya☆ I also like team's name"sharing mind". It’s very very nice, I think. I want to build a castle made by some sweets. For example, made by chocolate, candy and so on. How do you think about this?? By the way, I couldn’t download SL. So I can go to SL only at my university. I am sorry to be able to participate only in little time.

Hello, Team 9 and Team 10 / Let's START again. Much greater~
 * PLZ take a big action.
 * PLZ keep the promise you make.
 * This page show you basic information about our team 9, 10.
 * Assignment will be linked each page that you should write your opinion. So CLICK the TITLE below you're trying.
 * Anyone modifies this page. So if you want to put other stuff, make this page more actively. - 10/18/07 by Jinyi

1. Rules about TEAM 9, 10 2. Opinions about the flag and team name for TEAM 9, 10

- As long as I knew, I linked some. Fill the blanks~ ^^ - You can link your name to your own page which has your brief introduction or your e-mail address. - Your own page has to have your brief introduction and e-mail address in case of connecting each other. - 10/18/07 by Jinyi

email: irischka2004@yahoo.de || Fri 19:00～24:00 Sat 19:00～24:00 Sun 21:00～24:00 || Sun7:00 am || sun 5 am or 6am || those are definite times, other times are subject to change ||
 * No. || TEAM NO. || NAME (University) || Country || Available Time In SL ||
 * 1 || 9 || Kevin Worldue (KGU) || Japan ||  ||
 * 2 || 9 || Zack Worldue (KGU) || Japan ||  ||
 * 3 || 9 || Mason Worldue (KGU) || Japan ||  ||
 * 4 || 9 || Riley Rivera (SUNY) || USA || Mon 5:30 pm / Tue 12:00 pm / Thu 3:30 pm ||
 * 5 || 9, 10 || Julya Noriega (EAUL) || Canada || Tue 5:30-12:30 / Fri 5:30-8:30 ||
 * 6 || 9 || Jinyi Hastings (PUFS) || Korea || Tue 08:00 am / Thu 08 :00 am ||
 * 7 || 9, 10 || Lina Milena (ENSAT) || France || Mo 05:00 am - 09:00 am / Fri 05:00 am - 09:00 am
 * 8 || 9 || Sodapop Coakes (DSU) || USA ||  ||
 * 9 || 10 || Sara Worldue (KGU) || Japan || Mon 0:00～3:00, 17:00～20:00
 * 10 || 10 || Ashley Worldue (KGU) || Japan || Sat 7:00 am
 * 11 || 10 || Mia Worldue (KGU) || Japan ||  ||
 * 12 || 10 || JK Klaxon (SUNY) || USA ||  ||
 * 13 || 10 || Mihae Hastings (PUFS) || Korea || sat 5am or 6am
 * 14 || 10 || Aree Price (DSU) || USA || Tuesday/Thursday: 930am-11am SL time