META-SURFING HOUSE

Competition Project- Virtual Home Honorable Mention Winner

Partner：Bochuan Zheng & Xuhan Zhao

Year: 2022

The fast-paced and high-intensity working life in the future puts a lot of pressure on people in the physical world, while the metaverse gives people the opportunity to create their own unique, wonderful and interesting working and living station. VR technology allows virtual avatars to travel in time and space, and combined with optoelectronics and architectural space to construct a deep, immersive wonderland.

The virtual world is a place full of possibilities that are independent from physical space constraints. In the past, the communication between people and community mainly relied on the real architectural space, but now it has been moved to the digital space. There are two main functions of the house: entertainment mode and working mode, which can be simply switched in the virtual world according to the user’s need. In the working mode, the futuristic working space populated with dynamic digital surfaces creates an efficient and comfortable working environment for virtual avatars. In the entertainment mode, living space innovatively replicates the beauty of nature. The whole room is covered by grass and flowers, which is inspired by the basic human need for warmth and coziness.