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"A(lice) I(n) Www.onderland" by John Clayson 
  

Using Carroll’s narrative as a tool, the architecture explores how the relationship between the physical and the virtual can be manifested, founded on the notion that humans and machines are beginning to inhabit the world in a similar way.

As an archive of our online interactions, data centres are cultural signifiers of this epoch and provide fertile ground for the study of the physical implications of our online interactions; servers providing a physical metaphor for the way humans inhabit the tower blocks of modern cites. The building is a privatised data bank, the data symbolically stored through VR in a virtual landscape known as www.onderland.

The project acts as a criticism of the way we inhabit cities, arguing that the consumption of 2D images, especially (but not only) through screens, is creating a rift between our physical and online experience of architecture.