The Roco-Korean Basilica of Post-Reality
The Roco-Korean Basilica of Post-Reality is Procedurally generated religious space in the style of Bavarian Rococo Church is seamlessly merged with that of Confucianism Korean Temple. The user is invited to explore vertical spaces that lead to heaven and hell. The aesthetics of digitally generated representation by combining forms that are made purely from machine or computer logic. More reading below.
Combining two different architectural style of Bavarian Rococo church and Confucianism Korean Buddhist Temple. Two different cultural influences, two different religions, two different styles but both from around the same moment in history.
Speculation contemporary ways of producing form in architecture that could be operational through procedural design a method of creating form purely from machine logic.
“This is where you meet God”
All images are captures from real-time render
“This is where you meet God”
is a VR Experience
Project Description
Concept Note
This Project began from an interest in the aesthetics of the digital representation through assemblage and form made purely from machine logic. It posits to speculates on how contemporary ways of producing form in architecture could be operational through the process of procedural generation.
The virtual space where you will be is the interior of a hybrid spatial environment created though the techniques of procedural design using the architectural references of European Bavarian Rococo style churches and Korean temples from Confucianism architecture found and download from the internet called digital assets. These are used as an input material to generate artifact of unique forms. The environment offers experiencing of space existing between the realistic and impossible realities.This Project is specifically focused on the aesthetics of architectural verticality of the context, meaning the vertical relationship within these architectural styles; ceiling space with fresco paintings, structures with columns and arches and poche with and stained glass openings - which are very closely related to the ornamental expressions of the overwhelming spaces of the religious and sacred places such as churches and temples.The Procedural logic of the software governs the organization of each part and reorganizes them into a unique assembly of artifacts. Though this process, every artifact can be mass produced, unique in its own ways and holds its own right with coherent organization of parts of the discrete but at the same time creating an illusion of losing all references to produce sense of ambiguity.Format
VR Experience
User manual
The user is able to explore the spaces freely using the motion controller.
- You are free to roam around the space using the controller
- Look around and Turn your body 360 degrees to fully experience the space
- Explore to find access to hidden spaces, Go up and Fall down.
- Get on an elevator that leads you up to the heavenly space, or fall into hell to feel the sense of the falling.
Exhibition
Roco-Korean Basilica of Post-Reality is a VR Experience exhibited for the public at Mousontrum in Frankfurt am Main during 2019 along with other VR projects from Staedelschule Architecture Class as part of the ‘Breaking Glass II’ - Spatial Fabulations & Other Tales of Representation in Virtual Reality
Spatial Fabulations & Other Tales of Representation in Virtual Reality
by Johan Bettum, Stefan Wieland, Yara Feghali and Architecture Aesthetic Practice of Staedelschule Architecture Class 2019 (SAC)
