[History Line of Video Game Venues Development]

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LINGNAN CULTURE IN MEMORY

In 1971, the world's first arcade machine was born in an American computer lab. Arcade machine is a commercial game machine placed in a public entertainment place. And It was popular in the 80s and 90s.

In 1972, the world's first home game console MagnavoxOdyssey was born, marking the development of electronic games into a new era-Video games began to appear in the home.

[Site Analysis]

In 1994, Blizzard made his debut and Warcraft immediately became a global hit, which had made Internet cafes the main place for games.

With the development of technology, VR games are developing rapidly. Most of the current VR gaming equipment hardwares are too expensive for consumers, Thus More and more people are attracted to VR gaming venues.

Mudanjiang, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Heilongjiang Province, is located in the southeast of Heilongjiang Province. It is a sub-central city of Heilongjiang Province, an important regional central city in northeast and eastern regions and an important open portal of Heilongjiang Province. Therefore, Mudanjiang has the advantages to develop emerging industries such as game industry, which also lays the foundation for the development of game culture.

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The whole site is defined as a landscaped park to attract the flow of people and emphasize the interaction between the site and the pedestrians.

Design Strategy]

The main landscape axis is set to connect the natural green space in the west and northeast corners of the site, thus forming the regional landscape system.

site of the project is located in Mudanjiang City. It is close to the Mudanjiang government in the south, natural green space in the west and northeast corner, a primary school in the east, and the rest is surrounded by residential apartments. The site is trapezoidal wide in the south and narrow in the north, and the terrain is relatively flat.

The field is vertically stratified. The space around the big ladder forms the VR game field, and the big ladder becomes the grandstand, so as to increase the interest of the audience and make them become potential players.

[Site-Plan]

The addition of grey space makes the VR game field space experience more diverse, thus enriching the players' immersive game experience.

Survival Soil

The Underground Peace Utopia

From July to September 2022

Instructor : Guoyu Wang

Instructor Email : gw327@cornell.edu

Independent Study

Individual Work

The current world situation is volatile. Undoubtedly, the focus of world conflicts in 2022 will be the Russia-Ukraine war and the Military exercises in the Taiwan Strait. No matter who the beneficiaries of war have been, the toll on human life and culture has been irreversible. This design makes use of the attributes in undevelopment and security of the underground space to imagine the peace utopia in the future war period, explores the qualitative changes brought by underground space and bionic technology to human life, show different levels of space vision, so as to express contemporary people's yearning for a harmonious society in the future.

[Human Vulnerability to Sudden Crisis Events]

The human race is often put into a passive situation in the face of sudden disasters, and by far, wars and terrorist acts are slightly more harmful than natural disasters.

[Bionic technology apply to create a peaceful utopia]

[The Distribution and Scale of Underground Peace Utopias]

According to the volume of the human community of different camps, the appropriate scale of underground peace utopia is set up, and the path is provided to connect them, so as to construct a harmonious and ideal community with a shared future for mankind which is different from the world above the surface.

Protection

In the process of expanding foraging network veins, myxomycetes constantly weigh the cost, efficiency and strain capacity of the network veins according to environmental changes, and continuously optimize themselves to construct the best path. Their groups may interact with each other according to a few simple rules of behavior to develop such a complex and sophisticated system of pathways. In this design, the spontaneity of mycelium in external environmental changes is utilized to realize biological interference in human society by means of bionic technology, in order to cope with the passive situation of human beings in the face of war and terrorist attacks, and construct an ideal utopia of harmonious coexistence free from the disaster of war.

[Ecological Center]

The mycelium at the top of the ecological center absorbs light, and the mycelium at the bottom absorbs soil water and other nutrients. At the same time, the mycelium provides light energy and nutrients to the plants inside the ecological center. The plants produce oxygen through photosynthesis and transfer it to the grain-producing area, human social area and human residential area through the mycelium. So that the whole region form a self-contained organic system. At the same time, the ecological center can serve as a buffer zone of war, which can prevent the spread of war disaster to a certain extent, and make use of the regeneration of mycelia and plants to provide a guarantee for the sustainability of underground utopia.

[Human Social Area]

The human social area simulates the dot, line and surface structure of a public square and provides space for human activities.

At the same time, the human social area is also the structural transition area of the underground peace utopia. The radial mycelium connects the grainproducing area with the human residential area, which strengthens the resistance of the underground space to the shock wave of war and stabilizes the whole structural system.

[Grain-producing Area]

Mycelia carrying light energy, nutrients and oxygen extend from ecological center to grain-producing area, providing essential conditions for the growth of crops. Like ecological center, grain-producing area can be used as war buffer zone to prevent the spread of war disaster to a certain extent, and the regeneration of mycelia and crops can provide a guarantee for the sustainability of the underground utopia.

[Human Residential Area]

Human residential area consists of two parts, namely the upper structure area and the lower residential area. The lower residential area is distributed with mycelia and spores, spores contain human life, and mycelia maintain the connection between individuals. As the outer area of the underground space, the human residential area is protected by the inner buffer zone of the underground space, and its security is guaranteed to the greatest extent. At the same time, according to the degree of war, the mycelium in the superstructure area will expand or contract, seeking a balance between residential comfort and residential security.

[The Variables Affecting the Overall Spatial Morphology and the Mechanism of Action]

Light intensity - Contrary to traditional microscopic mycelia, mycelia under bionic technology will gather in the direction of light to obtain more light energy, so as to carry out more energy conversion.

Level of War - As the level of war increases, the top structure layer expands downward, increasing the war buffer area and thus offsetting most of the war damage.

[The Influence of Dominant Factors on Overall Spatial Morphology]

1.Dominated by natural conditions (low level of war) - Mycelia are basically unaffected by war, and act normally after being affected by light.

Light Intensity: Strong to Weak - a to d

Degree

2.Dominated by the degree of war (high level of war) - Mycelia are not only affected by natural conditions, but also affected by war. Therefore, when the light intensity decreases, mycelia will reduce the degree of aggregation in the direction of sunlight outside the surface, so as to reduce the number of directly exposed to the surface, thus reducing the possibility of war causing damage to a large range of mycelia.

Light

[Ecological Center]

[The Influence of Light Intensity on Spatial Morphology]

When light intensity decreases, mycelia will carry plants toward the surface to gather more light energy, so that plants can grow normally.

Light Intensity: Strong to Weak - a to h

[The Influence of Plant Size on Spatial Morphology]

The mycelia leaves the right space for the plant to grow according to plant community volume.

Plant Community Volume: Small to large - a to h

[Grain-producing Area]

[The Influence of Light Intensity on Spatial Morphology]

When light intensity decreases, mycelia will carry crops to the ecological center to obtain more light energy and ensure grain production as far as possible. At the same time, more peripheral space is left for food storage in case of severe weather periods.

Light Intensity: Strong to Weak - a to h

[Transport of Mycelium]

Mycelia carrying light energy, nutrients and oxygen extend from ecological centers to grain-producing areas, providing essential conditions for the growth of crops. In addition, the cavities in the mycelium also provide a route for grain transport.

[Human Social Area]

The human social area simulates the dot, line and surface structure of a public square and provides space for human activities. At the same time, the human social area is also the structural transition area of the underground peace utopia. The radial mycelium connects the grain-producing area with the human residential area, which strengthens the resistance of the underground space to the shock wave of war and stabilizes the whole structural system.

[The influence of ritual sense in public space on Spatial Node Morphology]

The more ceremonial the public space is, the more orderly and empty the space structure tends to be.

Ritualism: Weak to Strong - a to h

[Human Residential Area]

As the outer area of the underground space, the human residential area is protected by the inner buffer zone of the underground space, and its security is guaranteed to the greatest extent. At the same time, according to the degree of war, the mycelium in the superstructure area will expand or contract, seeking a balance between residential comfort and residential security.

[The Influence of the Degree of War on Spatial Morphology]

As the level of war increases, the superstructure area expands downward like an airbag, thus forming a larger buffer area to ensure the safety of the lower residential area. The mycelia and spores in the residential part gradually gathered at the bottom due to the expansion of the superstructure area, which reduced the comfort of human habitation and improved the safety.

The Process of Airbag Ejection

Spores in the human residential area contain human life. When the number of human individuals in the spores reaches saturation, spores will split, and some living individuals will live and reproduce in the newborn spores. On this basis, new human communities will be formed.