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This year OPEN, the annual exhibition of work by students from the School of Architecture + Cities has gone virtual. It’s a step taken out of necessity, but also as a way of embracing and engaging with new ways of working digitally, and of interacting with both architecture and each other.

We’ve taken a bold, speculative approach to hosting an exhibition, and have involved all the students and staff of the school – more than 700 people - in the construction of an innovative game engine based immersive experience. We've combined a mammoth body of work into a single digital world. We now have however a new framework to develop and use in a number of different ways as we continue with a virtual existence over the coming months.

VIRTUAL OPEN IS LIVE. TO ENTER THE EXHIBITION CLICK THE BUTTON BELOW. IMPORTANT INFORMATION: CENTRAL HALL IS LOADING SLOWLY PLEASE TRY AGAIN IF IT DID NOT LOAD ON THE FIRST TRY.

You will be able to experience two thirds of this year’s work via pixel-streaming directly from your web browser (ideally Google Chrome).

This is new technology, developed very quickly, by a very small team. We think you’ll be surprised - it works well and gives a whole new experience of our design studios and our students’ work. But please bear in mind it’s a preview of the show, and a Beta of the software, so it may contain a bug or two. We will be releasing a second version next week, along with the remainder of the work, and will continue to build the technology.

For now, please give it a go, and we hope you enjoy the show!

David, Francois, and the Virtual OPEN team.

 

DIRECTORY

Coming Soon

W

WEST HALL

BA DC Y1 + Y2 + Y3

Roudaina Alkhani & Maja Jović | Corinna Dean & Giulio Verdini | David Mathewson

BAIA Y1

Sue Phillips | Yota Adilenidou | Inan Gokcek | Matt Haycocks

BAIA Y2

Alessandro Ayuso | Matt Haycocks | Tania Lopez Winkler | Fiona Zisch | Chloe Van Der Kindere

BAIA Y3

Ro Spankie | Sam Aitkenhead | Diony Kypraiou | Allan Sylvester | Fiona Zisch

BSc AED Y1

Benson Lau | Mohataz Hossain

BSc AED Y2

Stefania Boccaletti | Benson Lau | Paolo Cascone | Mohataz Hussain

BSc AED Y3

Paolo Cascone | Benson Lau | Ruth Cuenca

BSc AT Y1 + Y2 + Y3

Tumpa Fellows | Eleni Han | Hocine Bougdah | Adam Thwaites | Tabatha Harris-Mills | Stefan Shaw | Paul Smith

MA Architecture

Nasser Golzari | Krystallia Kamvasinou | Filip Visnjic | Dirk Lellau | Yara Sharif | Richard Difford |Kate Jordan | Maja Jović | Samir Pandya

MA Interior Architecture

Lara Rettondini | Matthew Haycocks | Filip Visnjic | Bruce Irwin | Tomasz Dancel-Fiszer | Dusan Decermic | Maja Jovic | Lola Lozano Lara | Debbie Kuypers | Joe King

MSc AED

Rosa Schiano-Phan | Joana Goncalves | Benson Lau | Juan Vallejo | Mehrdad Borna | Amedeo Scofone | Kartikeya Rajput

Opens 30th July

C

CENTRAL HALL

BA Y1

Christopher Daniel & Katherine Leat | Richard Watson & Vasilija Abramovic | Jenny Kingston & John Edwards | Emma Perkin & Bongani Muchemwa | Neil Kiernan & Richa Mukhia | Jean Wang & Ross Perkin | Ursula Dimitriou & Balveer Mankia | Florian Brillet & Natalie Newey

DS2.1

Corinna Dean | Neil Kiernan | Duarte Santo

DS2.2

Natalie Newey | Richa Mukhia

DS2.3

Shahed Saleem | Michael Rose

DS2.4

Eric Guibert | Anthony Powis

DS2.5

Camilla Wilkinson | Chris Bryant

DS2.6

Victoria Watson | Kirti Durelle

DS3.1

Jane Tankard | Thomas Grove

DS3.2

Maria Kramer | Roberto Bottazzi

DS3.3

Constance Lau | Stephen Harty

DS3.5

Bruce Irwin | Catherine Phillips

DS3.6

Julian Williams | Michael Spooner

DS3.7

John Zhang | David Porter

Opens 6th August

E

EAST HALL

DS10

Toby Burgess | Arthur Mamou-Mami

DS11

Dusan Decermic | Elantha Evans

DS12

Ben Stringer | Peter Barber

DS13

Andrew Yau | Andrei Martin

DS15

Sean Griffiths | Kester Rattenbury

DS16

Anthony Boulanger | Stuart Piercy | Callum Perry

DS18

John Cook | Ben Pollock | Laura Nica

DS21

Gill Lambert | Geoff Shearcroft

DS22

Nasser Golzari | Yara Sharif

DS23

Richard Difford | Francois Girardin | David Scott

DS25

Alessandro Ayuso | Daniel Wilkinson | Martyna Marciniak

HOW TO NAVIGATE THE EXHBITION

VISIT THE IMMERSIVE EXHIBITION

For those that have a suitable PC, we recommend that you download Virtual OPEN. Please note that you will need a suitable machine (with a good graphics card), and it will take some time to download.

You will also need 20GB of free space and the following minimum system requirements.

Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or AMD Radeon HD 7870 or equivalent DX11 GPU
Video Memory: 2 GB VRAM

Processor: Core i5-7300U 3.5 GHz

Memory: 8 GB RAM

OS: Windows 7/8/10 64-bit

 

The beta download has expired.

The final version will be available when all halls have been published.

If you don't have a suitable PC (or are a Mac User) you can join the exhibition directly from your web browser.

We have found you get the best viewing experience using the Google Chrome Browser.

If you join online, you will be using a new technology called Pixel Streaming. You'll enter the show via powerful virtual machines running on Amazon's Cloud. You don't need to know how all this works, but bear in mind there's a lot going on, it's cutting edge technology, and it's always possible there'll be a glitch or two. Please bear with us, and you should see the immersive exhibition streamed directly to your screen.

Note that however you join the show, you can experience it either alone - the Solo experience - or in company. The shared experience is a viewing experience with other people, much like a physical exhibition, but you all inhabit avatars. However just like a physical exhibition there is a limit to how many can view at one time (even avatars take up floor space). This may require you to wait before entering. A Solo experience is just that, you will be alone to wander the halls of the exhibition. We recommend trying both, Shared for the social experience of the exhibition, Solo to fully absorb the extraordinary work produced by our talented students.

THE CATALOGUE

THE VIDEO

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE + CITIES

SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND CITIES

Professor Harry Charrington

Daniel Scroggins

WEBINARS

Alastair Blyth | Peter Sharratt

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VOP20 & FABRICATION LAB TEAM

CURATORS

David Scott | Francois Girardin

EXHIBIT DESIGN AND DIGITAL MODELING

Students and Studio Tutors from the School of Architecture + Cities

PRODUCTION COORDINATION

Edward Lancaster | Krista Zvirgzda | Guy Sinclair

UNREAL ENGINE DEVELOPMENT

Florian Koenig | Jack Ingram | David Scott | Francois Girardin

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Krista Zvirgzda | Edward Lancaster

WEB DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT

Edward Lancaster | Krista Zvirgzda

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SPECIAL THANKS

WEBINARS

Tony Talbot | Iram Sial | Ian Mulcahy | Leanne Tritton

SHOW OPENING

Professor Sadie Morgan

OPEN 2020 CATALOGUE & FILM

Clare Hamman

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