Untitled Time Space Displacement Unit One of Studio Paul Jones’ ongoing works in progress, Untitled Time Space Displacement Unit.
This project explores the potential and ideas around the liminal space where architectural imagination, speculative storytelling and cultural inquiry come together. It centres on immersive corridors as transitional spaces, shifting passageways that challenge conventional ideas of space and movement. These structures appear simultaneously across the world with no clear worldly or cohesive explanation for their arrival. Some are partially buried underground, some are immersed in water, some have merged with existing buildings and others float in the sky.
Constructed from a seemingly unknown material and shaped in an otherworldly logic reminiscent of the pseudo-science within science fiction B movies, the corridors create environments that feel uncannily familiar as if in an Escher-like world. Disorientating encounters where perspectives shift, gravity becomes uncertain and no fixed up or down exists. For example, a user might enter from Harrow, England and emerge in Mandeville, Jamaica moving across locations, time and space.
Studio Paul Jones will be collaborating with Playko*, through VR environments, projected images, models and diagrams, as the work attempts to analyse what structures are, where they come from and how they function. The ‘spheres’ have been calculated at being from five to fifteen storeys in diameter. Entering the corridors create the sensation of stepping into a non-gravitational space with no stable orientation or clear physical logic present. These spheres also invite participants to create their own worlds, rooms and spaces, expanding the project beyond a singular authored environment into a collaborative and evolving system. On exiting one corridor, a participant may find themselves entering somebody else’s world, moving between spaces shaped by different users, identities and narratives.
This ongoing process of exchange and world building is central to the work and reflects the project’s wider interest in migration, displacement, and the unstable nature of reality within both physical and virtual space.
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The project is supported by the RP1 Demonstrator. Playko and REP:308 are collaborating with Studio Paul Jones to build an immersive 3D environment where artists can experiment and collaborate in VR and AR. As part of the RP1 metaverse browser initiative to create an open standard spatial internet, the demonstrator helps capture user needs and shape future creative tools for world building.
Written by REP:308 and Playko.