Description
Book SynopsisGuest-edited by Owen Hopkins
Multispace exists at the intersection of the physical and digital, and in the blurring of their previously clear dividing lines. Multispace is not a single space, but a hybrid space where, in effect, we occupy multiple spaces simultaneously. We enter it on a Zoom call, when we are in our office and in a meeting with 20 people; when we are cycling down a country lane whilst racing against thousands of others who also use the Strava app; when we are watching a TV show while live tweeting; or, perhaps most literally, when wandering around the local park looking for creatures that only appear on a smartphone screen.
A fundamental question of this AD is why the phenomena that multispace describes are of concern to architects. The answer is that multispace points to a situation that is at root an architectural one. Offering both a collective and highly personalised experience, static and dynamically customisable, and above al
Table of Contents
About the Guest-Editor 5
Owen Hopkins
Introduction Architects in Multispace 6
Owen Hopkins
The Portal Galleries: Researching Portals in Fiction from the 19th Century to the Present 14
Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg
The Home as an Infinite Screen 22
Lucia Tahan
Hidden Infrastructures: From ‘Spy-Hubs’ to Hollow Buildings that Conceal the New Digital 30
Wendy W Fok
Architecture in Postreality: Emerging Approaches to Space in Hybrid Realities 38
Jesse Damiani
Touching, Licking, Tasting: Performing Multisensory Spatial Perception Through Extended-Reality Models 48
Paula Strunden
Multipurpose Domesticity: Labour, Leisure and Kitchen Tables 56
Holly Nielsen
Conjunctions: Or, Space as Oxymoron 64
Giacomo Pala
Celebrating the Glitch: The Multispatial Work of Ibiye Camp 72
Owen Hopkins
Architecture is Interface: Latent Virtuality from Antiquity to Zoom 78
Joshua Bard and Francesca Torello
Very Big Art: Follies, the Public and Multispace 86
Andrew Kovacs
Ways of Worlding: Building Alternative Futures in Multispace 94
Alice Bucknell
The Anti-Metaverse: Multispace and the Intersections of Reality 104
Micaela Mantegna and Marcelo Rinesi
All At Once – From Zoom Fatigue to Immersive Digital Experiences: Why Architecture Must Adapt 112
Sasha Belitskaja
Shifting Contexts: Liam Young's Prototypes of Architectural Futures 122
Owen Hopkins
From Another Perspective – The Haçienda Must Be Built 128
Neil Spiller
Contributors 134
