Immersive Experience Portfolio: Inspiration & Revised VR Plan

Inspiration

Gunkanjima → Battleship Island

• Initially Built for the growing numbers of the island workers

  • Is now abandoned and over run with nature

    • Can tour the island, only on certain paths

  • Made during the influx of coal industries

• Made of concrete to withstand the typhoons that often occur

• Brutalist architecture→ made to house thousands of people → does not matter if it looks “pretty”

• Hashima Island, Japan

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Khrushchyovka - Russian Apartment Complexes

• Brutalist architecture

• Housing crisis

  • WWII

• Russia/Soviet Union

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Scene

• Concrete Room

• -->Whole life within the room

  • -->Bed

  • -->Table

  • -->Chairs

  • -->Maybe some picture frames

  • -->Single light source

• Broken wall

  • -->Showing the outside which will be a field of sunflowers

  • -->Sunshine

• Sound

  • Geiger counter louder inside much less outside

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Concept for Experience

• Consequences of nuclear waste

  • Mentioning not only nuclear waste but nuclear war

• 360 video showings the before→ what could lead to the end

  • Brutalism

  • Claustrophobia

    • Making the viewer uncomfortable