What is a bedroom? Our most inner sanctum? A safe and reliable place for personal restoration and peace? A commercial office space in the pandemic era? A sacred cave where we drift into virtual dream spaces on a nightly basis? A public stage to perform a simulation of our lives?
As I work on my Thesis project and am inspired by the Biophilic Experiences class, I decided to combine my interest in the octopus with my curiosity of reef restoration. Reefs, being the home, or bedroom, of coral, fish, and many other parts of marine life, are vital to our oceans overall health. As water temperatures rise, providing new places and structures (or as I’m thinking about it here, bedrooms) to facilitate rehabilitation is vital.
Using the limited tools Jonathan set for us, I created an underwater shrine to marine life.
In progress. Unfortunately had a coffee incident with my PC so this is the only in-progress documentation I have.
While we we’re not allowed to place our works inside water using tools like the landscape tools, Jon was still able to place mine in an underground context and use a water texture on the ceiling to somewhat imitate the effect of being underwater.
It is a large enough structure for the player to climb around on and explore. Unfortunately, due to the way Jon put the space together, you can’t surface above the water.
The limits were placed on what we could use so Jon could add all of our spaces together into one big game-space.
Mine is the room on the far right that looks like water from above.