A VIRTUAL CITY UPDATE

Its futuristic architecture in the physical architecture bears resemblance to Liberland’s architecture in the virtual world, particularly with the virtual City Hall building (right). Take a look at the Heydar Aliyev Centre in Baku, Azerbaijan designed by ZHA (left). Heydar Aliyev Centre (Left) Photo Credit: Arch Daily Ĭity Hall Building in Liberland (Right) Photo Credit: ZHA On the other hand, ZHA’s hyper-futuristic buildings look somewhat realistic, especially when considering the style of ZHA’s past work. For example, Horizon Worlds, Meta’s metaverse, is inspired by video games with cartoon-looking avatars and designs. This marks a massive difference between ZHA’s project and other ones in the metaverse. The Liberland Metaverse may live in the virtual world, but its architecture is grounded in reality.

Some of the out-of-this-world features of ZHA’s metaverse city include hovering rooftops and auditoriums that can expand and shrink based on how many users are in them. They will be able to traverse the hyper-realistic city and its city hall, collaborative working spaces, shops, business incubators, and a gallery for NFT art shows. Once the city is complete, users will be able to buy vacant plots and access them as an avatar. This small virtual city is called The Liberland Metaverse which is accessible via Mytaverse, a cloud-based platform.

A VIRTUAL CITY UPDATE

Last update on Saturday 13 August 2022 (17:27) by C.Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA), one of the most prominent architecture firms in the world, is building a virtual utopian city in the metaverse. The project is implemented through the Virtual Shanghai platform. The three-year project started in March 2013.

'War made Shanghai' was again selected by the National Research Agency in 2012. The ANR attributed a three-year grant to support the project. Mail: Nationale de la Recherche 'Virtual Shanghai: Shanghai Urban Space in Time' is one of the research projects in social sciences and humanities selected in 2005 by the National Research Agency in France. Project director: Christian Henriot (安克強), Institut de Recherches Asiatiques, Aix-Marseille University Institut Universitaire de France.It also points to sites that are relevant for the various fields of knowledge from which the Virtual Shanghai Project draws its inspiration. The Virtual Shanghai Bookmarks introduce web sites that relate to Shanghai history, especially those that provide visual materials, as well as significant collections of visual materials related to China and Taiwan. It does not operate within the Virtual Shanghai platform, but you will find a brief presentation on Youtube. IVS is a virtual immersive and interactive environment that allows interaction with the images and cartographic documents in the database.

See the latest news on the Virtual Shanghai Blog iVS (Immersive Virtual Shanghai) The authors of the present project suscribe to the idea of sharing scholarship and research tools for the benefit of scholars, students, and citizens at large.' Blog On the resource side, apart from providing original textual and visual documents, it develops a powerful cartographic tool for spatial analysis and real-time mapping (to be upgraded soon). On the research side, the platform offers various ways to step into the history of the city and follow its course at different levels over time.

The implementation of this approach relies on the use of digital and GIS technologies. The objective of the project is to write a history of the city through the combined mobilization of these various types of documents. It incorporates various sets of documents: essays, original documents, photographs, maps, quantitative data, etc. 'Virtual Shanghai is a research and resource platform on the history of Shanghai from the mid-nineteenth century to nowadays. Welcome to the Virtual Shanghai platform! Virtual Shanghai Project

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