Peach Mania-rchitecture

An article of Winner (In-wolrd prize) of Digital Design Competition was published by Nikkei Trendy Net (Japanese only).

It is a very detailed article of sela Boa and peeeach Loon's fantastic architecture - [Peach Mania Guerrillax]. They said that "The motif of the space is a Princess Peach of Super Mario Bros. " Their project at all has very pop impression - like video game - unlike other application ideas. Mitsuo Iso (animation director) who one of the judges evaluated this project especially high.

Please see the automatic English translation version.

• Article #1 - automatic translation version
• Article #2 - automatic translation version

and

• Index of Second Life Odyssey - automatic translation version
  

Very detailed article about "Archidemo"

Very detailed article about the photograph exhibition by two Japanese artists and me in "Archidemo" was published by Nikkei Trendy Net (Japanese Only).

Automatic-translated version is Here - But it is not perfect. ex:"Corabo" means "Collaboration".

by Kimio Itozaki + Hidenori Watanave

This article includes both of experience story of our collaboration and interview with Kimio Itozaki (Artist, Photographer) and Tomoyuki Sakaguchi (Photographer). It is very good article for me, because the artistic report of Second Life (Metaverse) by mass-media is unusual in Japan.

Kimio Itozaki can't access Second Life from his PC environment, but he said "It is the same as an overseas exhibition where I cannot go, and it is also happy.". This is a very interesting, original aspect.

by Hidenori Watanave + Tomoyuki Sakaguchi

Tomoyuki Sakaguchi said "Virtual-Space is an atelier, but it will become a gallery not easily. Two reasons - The number of users is still little, and the access to the space is difficult.". On the other hand, He thinks that Second Life has strong possibility to be as production space and an experiment space.

The following article by Nikkei Trendy Net will be written about the visualisation of Sci-Fi novel world by Hirotaka Tobi (Sci-Fi novelist) + Jiron Koyama (VR creator) + me. I will introduce next article just like this article.

The Result of [Digital Design Competiton]

The Result of [Digital Design Competiton] by Nikkei Architecture was announced. This competition is the Final event of Archidemo.

This was epoch-making design competition of Virtual-Worlds, by large amount of money prize (about 20,000 dollars in all) and famous cross-field jury member. Winners was elected from 55 application ideas.

The result of competition was published in the Website of Nikkei Business Publications and Nikkei Architecture magazine. All articles are only Japanese, but, the automatic translation version can be seen here.

• Winners (Picasa web album)
  
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Grand Prix : [THE MUSEUM OF THE GLOBE] by Atelier Ten

Competition Theme:

Life Media Museum in 21st century


Jury Member:

• Ryue Nishizawa
  (Architect, Associate professor of Yokohama National University)
• Tetsuya Mizuguchi
  (Game Producer, CCO of Q ENTERTAINMENT Inc.)
• Mitsuo Iso
  (Animation Director, Scenario writer)
• Hidenori Watanave
  (CEO of Photon, Associate professor of Tokyo Metropolitan University)
• Yoshihisa Yamamoto
  (Executive editor of Nikkei Architecture)

Winners:



Grand Prix

Integrated proposal section (Prize 1,000,000 yen)

• [THE MUSEUM OF THE GLOBE]
  Iwami Kawamura|Ichiro Furse + Tsutomu Teramoto|TERRA Zehetbauer (Atelier Ten)
  

Single facilities section(Prize 500,000 yen)

• [SKY+]
  Naomi Kuratani (Osaka Seikei University)

Distinction

Integrated proposal section(Prize 100,000 yen)

• [Third Life ~ANOTHER SECOND LIFE~]
  Naomi Ida + Syo Funabashi, Tetsumi Kanno, Baku Mochida (Japanese engineering academy Hachioji school)
• [discuscape ~discussions change the landscape~]
  Yasutomo Matsuoka|Yaah Oh + Atsuo Ishikawa, Jun Yamada, Sai Ishizawa (Takenaka Corporation)
• [plusfive,50,217,26]
  Takumi Kitagawa|tasumi kungfu (+5) + Kotetsu Li|bigleee kungfu (STUDIO BIGROOM), Yukio Tsuchiya|tutti kungfu (+5)

Single facilities section

• [Room-by-Room Design of Degital Museum and Its Behavior-Oriented Modeling]
  Shigeru Owada (Sony Computer Science Laboratory)
• [Is it a trash dump or a dream island?]
  Tetsuya Sekimoto|Okoge Honi (Free-lance)
• [Point oriented Architecture]
  Keita Watanave (Tokyo Institute of Technology Graduate School)
• [Memory sharing navigation]
  Takeshi Kabata|kabayan wellman (Ad-lib Ltd.)

In-world Prize (Prize L$100,000)

• [3D * Web Structure]
  hsr Voom (Company employee)
• [Peach Mania Guerrillax]
  Hidetaka Nagahama|sela Boa (Free-lance) + Satomi Inao|peeeach Loon (Company employee)

Honorable Mention

Integrated proposal section

• [Life Media Museum in 21st C.]
  Kazutaka Narabe + Kazunori Komine, Takumi Hino, Genta Katsumoto, Taichi Harasawa (Japanese engineering academy Hachioji school)
• [media town - white garden]
  Hiroyuki Nakagawa (Free-lance)
• [LIFE WOVEN MUSEUM]
  Hiroto Iwamura (Architectural Association School of Architecture)
  

Single facilities section

• [distance = 4log(2r) + 8.3]
  Takeo Funabashi|SIEMED Dryke (Tokyo Electrical Engineering College information environmental faculty), Support enterprise: Kyodo Printing

Please see result:

• Winners (Picasa web album)
  
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This article intoroduced by Ambling in Second Life and Architecture +. Thank you very much.