I was just checking out the four finalists for the 1st Annual Architecture and Design Competition in Second Life, well, I was just checking out the three you can visit at your leisure, the first one listed, Berliner Tanja Meyle’s “Living Cloud” project, is a cloud surrounding her avatar Creatina Ferraris and is not only a transportable house; its variability brings in an association with the idea that the house is just an extension of the body of the person who inhabits it. “Living Cloud” is thus a fascinating metaphor involving what could be referred to as the private sphere. It also brings about concrete encounters and communication in virtual space. You have to instant message Creatina Ferraris to get a look at it, here is a pic from the SL Awards site.

The second listed finalist is Whitenoise by Max Moswitzer from Vienna and it consists of so-called freebies, which are comprised of a growing architectural structure of virtual objects that can be acquired free of charge. The objects require only a minimal number of so-called prims, the construction elements in Second Life. Here are some pics I took while checking it out.

The third finalist listed was Seventeen Unsung Songs by Adam Nash from North Melbourne is an interactive sound garden. “Seventeen unsung songs are offered by a world into which one can playfully immerse; it consists of audiovisual elements that produce sounds, undergo spatial modification and thereby give rise to an aesthetic and sensory spatial construct via interaction. The question of whether a new trend for innovative, futuristic music videos could be derived from this remains open as yet.” Here are a couple pics.

The fourth finalist was Hyperformalism by San Franciscan DC Spensley, this structure is defined as less a building than a spatial interface. In an orthogonal framework, this interface contains numerous interactive application possibilities. This one you have to see, I have a few pics below.

They were supposed to announce the winners on the Avastar Island on the 25th, but I couldn’t find which one it was when I was there.

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