GsapVR

Probe into 3D navigation.

Html format, QuickTime VR content

GsapVR is a study on stretchable surface as a container of information. An alternative navigational system that no longer relies on the mode of clicking and linking. Instead it reveals successive information through the expansion of its surface area.

GsapVR is an object oriented study that priviliges surface behavior over spatial considerations. The present web page of Columbia's architecture department (Gsap) - designed by Dean Di Simone of kd.Lab - serves as a starting point. The given two-dimensional information surface is liberated from browser frames and elevated into the third dimension. A geometrical primitive (torus) changes shape according to data distribution among the main categories (e.g. people, places, things). The more data a category carries, the 'blobbier' the respective part of the object gets.
The second phase of the object's transformation is controlled by the user. In order to get additional information the user inflates the object and creates a larger surface in the area of interest.

coersmeier, hillebrand, zschiegner