XR | AR | Interactive Design
SAFE SPACES
Safety in confined areas. The urge to run into a blanket fort persists in adults. A sensation of physical security is one of the key features of small places, acting as a barrier from something challenging and for emotional security. ‘We all recall the secret places we would hide in as a child, and that comforting feeling of being cocooned,’ says Sarah Watkins Being somewhere dark or inaccessible to adults excites. Kids run into forts together, adults alone, but we can seek safety together.
Year :
2024
Category :
Academic
Client :
UCL Master's Project
Project Type :
Group Project with Marina Andrioti, Nada Yaakoub, Nina Attinello
The Story
Tucked in the depths of a magical forest was a beautiful cottage, home to Mira and her wonderful friends and family. Like the forest Mira too was special and magical. She possessed the power to conjure animals, build amazing forts, and bake excellent cookies. On one fateful day, Mira followed one of her conjured creatures out of her fort, out of her bedroom window and into the forest.
She trailed its magical tail, but couldn’t keep its pace and suddenly found herself lost and alone. She didn’t realize how far she had gone, but when she turned around her family’s cottage was nowhere to be seen. This magical forest was ever shifting and for years Mira couldn’t find a way back home. After months of daydreaming about her lost forts and wishing to reunite with her family, Mira willed herself to forget the comfort and safety of her former life. Easier to forget, she decided, than to carry the pain of such a profound loss.
This decision served her many years until one night a terrible storm blew through the forest. Unable to defend herself from the harsh wind, Mira collapsed onto the forest floor. She cried out for her family and grasped for leaves and branches, trying desperately to build a shelter. With a final feat of strength she managed to save herself and create a beautiful cover, a shield, a fort!
And suddenly the storm vanished. She crawled out from under her leafy fortress and found herself standing in front of her family’s cottage. She burst through the door and hugged her friends and family, crying and laughing with joy after so many years apart. Finally she made her way up to her bedroom. Her fort, from all those years ago, remained standing strong, and next to it stood all the many forts she daydreamed of while traveling through the forest. She was safe and sound and home at last.
The Process
TASK: The task given was to create an immersive experience that will be physically hosted within Maringate, by using architectural skills to propose a Journey through a spatial structure which can be accessed through a portal.
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK: For this task we started with looking exploring Augmented reality and 360-degree video using Virtual reality, until we finally landed on wanting to explore something that included a lot of physical interaction that engages all the the senses, and par participation of of both the creator and the audience, hence landing on Projection mapping.
PERSONAL GOALS: The collective personal goals for this tuk lay in the fact that we wanted to go out of our comfort zones and try things new to us, For me that was storytelling and Sound Design. Anything in green represents the part I worked on.
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XR | AR | Interactive Design
SAFE SPACES
Safety in confined areas. The urge to run into a blanket fort persists in adults. A sensation of physical security is one of the key features of small places, acting as a barrier from something challenging and for emotional security. ‘We all recall the secret places we would hide in as a child, and that comforting feeling of being cocooned,’ says Sarah Watkins Being somewhere dark or inaccessible to adults excites. Kids run into forts together, adults alone, but we can seek safety together.
Year :
2024
Category :
Academic
Client :
UCL Master's Project
Project Type :
Group Project with Marina Andrioti, Nada Yaakoub, Nina Attinello
The Story
Tucked in the depths of a magical forest was a beautiful cottage, home to Mira and her wonderful friends and family. Like the forest Mira too was special and magical. She possessed the power to conjure animals, build amazing forts, and bake excellent cookies. On one fateful day, Mira followed one of her conjured creatures out of her fort, out of her bedroom window and into the forest.
She trailed its magical tail, but couldn’t keep its pace and suddenly found herself lost and alone. She didn’t realize how far she had gone, but when she turned around her family’s cottage was nowhere to be seen. This magical forest was ever shifting and for years Mira couldn’t find a way back home. After months of daydreaming about her lost forts and wishing to reunite with her family, Mira willed herself to forget the comfort and safety of her former life. Easier to forget, she decided, than to carry the pain of such a profound loss.
This decision served her many years until one night a terrible storm blew through the forest. Unable to defend herself from the harsh wind, Mira collapsed onto the forest floor. She cried out for her family and grasped for leaves and branches, trying desperately to build a shelter. With a final feat of strength she managed to save herself and create a beautiful cover, a shield, a fort!
And suddenly the storm vanished. She crawled out from under her leafy fortress and found herself standing in front of her family’s cottage. She burst through the door and hugged her friends and family, crying and laughing with joy after so many years apart. Finally she made her way up to her bedroom. Her fort, from all those years ago, remained standing strong, and next to it stood all the many forts she daydreamed of while traveling through the forest. She was safe and sound and home at last.
The Process
TASK: The task given was to create an immersive experience that will be physically hosted within Maringate, by using architectural skills to propose a Journey through a spatial structure which can be accessed through a portal.
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK: For this task we started with looking exploring Augmented reality and 360-degree video using Virtual reality, until we finally landed on wanting to explore something that included a lot of physical interaction that engages all the the senses, and par participation of of both the creator and the audience, hence landing on Projection mapping.
PERSONAL GOALS: The collective personal goals for this tuk lay in the fact that we wanted to go out of our comfort zones and try things new to us, For me that was storytelling and Sound Design. Anything in green represents the part I worked on.
More Projects
XR | AR | Interactive Design
SAFE SPACES
Safety in confined areas. The urge to run into a blanket fort persists in adults. A sensation of physical security is one of the key features of small places, acting as a barrier from something challenging and for emotional security. ‘We all recall the secret places we would hide in as a child, and that comforting feeling of being cocooned,’ says Sarah Watkins Being somewhere dark or inaccessible to adults excites. Kids run into forts together, adults alone, but we can seek safety together.
Year :
2024
Category :
Academic
Client :
UCL Master's Project
Project Type :
Group Project with Marina Andrioti, Nada Yaakoub, Nina Attinello
The Story
Tucked in the depths of a magical forest was a beautiful cottage, home to Mira and her wonderful friends and family. Like the forest Mira too was special and magical. She possessed the power to conjure animals, build amazing forts, and bake excellent cookies. On one fateful day, Mira followed one of her conjured creatures out of her fort, out of her bedroom window and into the forest.
She trailed its magical tail, but couldn’t keep its pace and suddenly found herself lost and alone. She didn’t realize how far she had gone, but when she turned around her family’s cottage was nowhere to be seen. This magical forest was ever shifting and for years Mira couldn’t find a way back home. After months of daydreaming about her lost forts and wishing to reunite with her family, Mira willed herself to forget the comfort and safety of her former life. Easier to forget, she decided, than to carry the pain of such a profound loss.
This decision served her many years until one night a terrible storm blew through the forest. Unable to defend herself from the harsh wind, Mira collapsed onto the forest floor. She cried out for her family and grasped for leaves and branches, trying desperately to build a shelter. With a final feat of strength she managed to save herself and create a beautiful cover, a shield, a fort!
And suddenly the storm vanished. She crawled out from under her leafy fortress and found herself standing in front of her family’s cottage. She burst through the door and hugged her friends and family, crying and laughing with joy after so many years apart. Finally she made her way up to her bedroom. Her fort, from all those years ago, remained standing strong, and next to it stood all the many forts she daydreamed of while traveling through the forest. She was safe and sound and home at last.
The Process
TASK: The task given was to create an immersive experience that will be physically hosted within Maringate, by using architectural skills to propose a Journey through a spatial structure which can be accessed through a portal.
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK: For this task we started with looking exploring Augmented reality and 360-degree video using Virtual reality, until we finally landed on wanting to explore something that included a lot of physical interaction that engages all the the senses, and par participation of of both the creator and the audience, hence landing on Projection mapping.
PERSONAL GOALS: The collective personal goals for this tuk lay in the fact that we wanted to go out of our comfort zones and try things new to us, For me that was storytelling and Sound Design. Anything in green represents the part I worked on.