Thursday, June 1, 2006

Post-Occupancy

If you're registered to the online presence of the Italian magazine domus -- and if you're not I recommend it, especially since it's free -- go check out the new free virtual tour of OMA's student center at IIT, part of the forthcoming domus d'autore, or Post-Occupancy by AMO and Rem Koolhaas.

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The Shockwave virtual tour works like a QuickTime VR, with hotspots within the scenes and a handy collapsible, interactive map that also indicates the current location and view direction.

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With user interaction missing from so much architectural photography today, these interactive vignettes look like helpful tools for seeing how a building is used long after the architect has "left the building."

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I can't help but wonder, though, if these panoramas (in general, not necessarily at IIT) are less than spontaneous. I'm not sure exactly how they're shot, but I see them as closer to very early photography and long exposures or stitched compositions of multiple images, rather than quick fraction of a second snaps. But, hey, I've been known to be wrong.

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