I'm normally against the trend of educators in SL to recreate their RL buildings directly. Too many of them are uninspiring places at the best of times, and SL offers so much more, and has less need of classrooms in the formal sense too.
All those objects still hold - but the machanima, from which I unashamedly stole the still to illustrate this piece, of Kisa Naumova's build of H building of the Leeds School of Contemporary Art and Graphic Design within SL is still a fascinating watch.
Whilst I'm left wondering about how primmy it is compared to a normal SL build (no data, just curious, although I might go and see) the ability to take architects' plans and convert into a build in SL will appeal to many I'm sure. I'm not entirely sure how involved the process is, but watching the building fly up was fun.
1. Unrelated, and yet related, about 6 months ago I was needed (by my RL employer) to rebuild the company's RL building in SL, then add an additional renovation to the SL recreation.
This was exactly the use to highlight how SL architecture is used to create RL architecture.
So, I built the renovation in SL, took snapshots and walked the bigwhigs through. They loved it and will be building the RL renovation based from the SL creations I built.
:O)
Posted at 2:47PM on Apr 2nd 2007 by Doubledown Tandino