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SEQUENTIAL SPATIAL NARRATIVE
from Portfolio_jp
by JayP44
Experiencing Sea Level Rise Through Spaces
The foremost experience escorts user into a tapering & towering volume The idea here is to give an immediate impression to the user that the coming calamity is alarming & one beyond his control
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The swivelling floor & walls give vigorous sense of imbalance and in the last few steps, the user feels completely inferior to this force
Except the basement, the floors are made up of glass, which casts long shadows of people above into the space This shadows signify the predicted loss of lives due to climate change
The succeeding space reveals how climate change is not about a single issue but a multitude of interconnected conflicts
Sea level rise is often represented through complex numbers, difficult for a layman to grasp the severity of the problem Idea is to take the data & represent it spatially, make information tangible
Hence, a space whose volume is equivalent to the amount of ice melted by an average person, every year
It allows one a moment of pause, a moment of silence to retrospect over the experience and moral of this spatial-narrative
