I am conflicted? And troubled
so im laying down my thoughts.
Here is how I see it. My character is the consul, his name is ALBERTO.

He works at a consulate between the digital world and the real world, yet he only exists in the digital world.

In an attempt to bring the virtual world and the real world closer, the local government has made a home for ALBERTO in the real world. Yet he dose not live there, He lives in point of limbo, as his dwelling in the virtual world is linked to the physical building.

The link is a complicated mixture of audio and digital holograms and recorders designed to create a dichotomy where as if a person enters the real house there movements gestures and mannerisms are recorded and instantaneously projected into the virtual structure, inversely if an avatar in the virtual enters the virtual house there movements gestures and mannerisms are projected into the real house.
To increase the interplay between person and virtual avatar there is another person living with Alberto there to interact and teach him how to be human.




So I need to make a space that is designed to promote interplay between the two peoples and allow learning.

The structure is internalised and has little need to interplay with neighbours.

Spaces need to be simple and have no moveable furniture as large objects can inhibited the projection of the holograms.

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If you are with someone, you change the way you act, and re-act to a situation.
If you are alone there is no-one to impress, no-one to entertain, no-one to justify yourself, Your nature of being, Your nature of doing Your actions, reactions. No one is alone and your own will is what yearns for a physical connection, loneliness is only one side of being alone.
The last of your kind, The last to speak a language, The first to speak a language, The first to have an idea, The first to have a idea concept.
The first to be a design concept

My consul, ALBERTO is the First of his kind he is a computer program with an artificial intelligence designed to link the virtual world with the real world.

He yearns to be apart of the real world so much so that he has dwellings in the real world constructed for him. With digital holographic projectors he can move and connect with the real world inside of his home.

People can enter communicate with him via a division of his home.

He can’t be in the real world but he is coming fucking close..

draft structure

one of many Viz models that are going to be made
in the middle is a piece of virtual art.

his life is stil revolving around his connnection to the virtual world to the extent of the virual world acting as the core of his home.
his life is seperated from the real world, by physically raising the builfing to another level
(and yes i haven't put stairs in, its a draft)

inside another space..

scale means nothing... as there is limitless space.














come inside have a seat..
shit my roof has a virus..
its gone again












what do u mean my toilet is out side.
isn't yours?

the physical model is the virtual world.

here people are in a space where there are no limitations..

the Consul, Alberto lives in his own house. with walls that change into floors and windows that are doors.. the space can change at his will.










this is a shoot from above the home of alberto

looks like he has a friend over?...











one side of his home.. is that a bed?

sketch up drafts

Looking at a consulate i took the abstraction of a stone bruck and rebuilt a distorted form.

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Playing with the idea of an open building and the idea of a observation deck, for the consul to watch the people.

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a glass structure with the observation deck.. able to view everything.. the virtual is taking control of the real world.

the consul is still above the people

the tallest virtual building

http://www.mrwong.de/myhouse/index.htm

the consul as told by hejduk

He spends the day stamping the passport portraits photos'faces with red ink until the photo appears to resuemble a rose.
Then He sews the passport Shut.

Consolidation of ideas.

There are two places working in synchronicity within one another. Linked by an interface called ALBERTO, he is the figure head of the virtual consulates. The controlling programmed ambassador in charge of protecting dignitaries (the general public) form losing themselves in the virtual world.

1: the virtual world; changing constantly in its state of Flux and learning through the imagination of those who enter. It is addictive and has many people under its thrall.

2 the real world; apparently unchanged has in fact been influenced and merged resulting on the public relying on the consulate and its interface like a drug.
The real and the virtual places are linked through one point the consulate. There is more then one consulate, but all are identical, 36 people form the real world, can enter at any one time from one interface. The consulate is in the real world, a structure that is there for all to view. It is solid and acts as a viewing platform to, the virtual and real worlds. The structure is full of subliminal messaging and advertisements.

The ‘consuls’ live above the interface points, are also a form of programming. They are there to moderate and bare witness to the real world ‘dignitaries’ yearns and desires. They are in control of the consulate and have means of sorting the people in to there appropriate sectors. The interface has an additive prominence, which is why the people keep coming back to re-experience the virtual; this is partly due to the buildings free form/alien design and relaxing atmospheric spaces. Consequently much of its space is empty waiting areas with alternative artworks to promote thought.

Sustenance and reason is something which isn’t considered important to the consul as they don’t use nor need it. As for the dignitaries they must bring there own food and water like a religious pilgrimage, but of a different type.

it just gets worse

My clients name is still ALBERTO.
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His world is one of confusion as he is a virtual person, but more real then is let known. His job is to moderate and run a revolutionary consulship in the virtual world.

Time doesn’t matter as somewhere around the world there is always daylight; so it is always daytime. Real People from all around the world are visiting his virtual home as a means to navigate and make reason of his surreal space. There is no one person in control although the public is lead to believe this, rather there is a group of people working in one succinct motion. ALBERTO can be seen as the name of his disguise, not the lawmaking group of people that control him.

His mind is the site of the virtual space, he is the computer and the emissary; there to guide to imagination. Showing them there way and where they will fit in and who they should connect with, he then lets them go allowing them to do what they must to connect with others.

He is the core of a two sided structure. His programming, which acts more as a human mind then a string of code, and the place where people go to “log in”. His mind is a space of order and control he is all that matters.

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so mine is a world limitless time, and information. There is no one space, no one person, rather there is a group of people and all linked to the one 'HUB' or ‘BRAIN’ or a program called ALBERTO.

In the real world there are people going about there life as they do today, walking, talking, working, sleeping, eating and eventually death. This is there life, with more living involved, space where they fashion their existence with out restriction.

Mine is a new form of retirement home, not just for the elderly... people can escape to there own virtual self.. and retire to a new world.
so the reality is that there is no corporal form for its location.. only a linking of virtual realms.. existence as electrical singles.

Its shape is not a form as solid as a wall or floor, its one of flux.. where rooms are not there all the time.. Rooms construct and are created as they are needed. As soon as one is brought to life the other is stored, ever growing ever changing to follow with the exploits of its people’s imagination.

the new modern world

The new Modern world..
The tangible objects are wasteful. The conservational way of the future is the digital world. We don’t need 1000 books only one screen. We don’t need 1000 tv channels only one internet connection. We don’t need 1000 CD’s, or 1000 DVD’s .. only one huge M.F. of a Hard drive. Free entertainment, free communication, the new modern world is not focused on living it is focused on life.
We don’t need to look towards the future, as it will change by the tomorrow. we have to save for the future, as the now that matters and creates the future. We are the now.. not the future.

look around the WEB. and realise that we are its future designers

the new world order

This is what im looking at, the future; its not what we make it.. the future will come about all by its self; every breath we take every move we make will only lead to out enviable ruin. What will be left to take our place in 1000, 2000, 3000 years.. that’s for the future to know.. and only ours to speculate.. we are now; so live in the now and don’t be afraid of the future cos u don’t make it, it makes U!

RuN! for it is all around u..
stop and it will engulf u..
look back and you will waste the present..
and a present is what it is..
look forward and u see nothing..
space is for nobody, but a body takes up space..
area is not a number..
distance is not a measurement it’s a constant battle for reason..
it exists bcos we want it 2..
we are the creators in an space with no limitations..
what can be crated belongs in the virtual cos the real wouldn’t understand.

Walk, enjoy, it will be all we have left in the future…….