City Notification-Social media impact on physical space

CITY NOTIFICATIONS

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THE BUILDINGS IN THE SCREEN ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR.

Until fairly recently, most people grew up, lived out their lives, and died within 10 or 20 miles of where they were born. Now, many people find themselves in places far from home, living in communities defined not by common acquaintance, but by how they are reachable and sharable.

Living together will be easier and faster, people will feel closer to the cities as long as they are closer to the screens. Considering how sharing images of new malls, hotels, shops and apartments on social media contributes to expanding further in the desert .

New Cities could take that as an opportunity to break away from the usual expansion strategy and do something more daring in their new spaces.

The pavilion

Arousing the curiously of the visitors from the entrance by showing dark shades of light and the sand hill. By stepping inside, visitors will be directed to a big screen showing a skyline of the city and by getting closer, the visitor will see himself as an interactive shadow on the same screen with the buildings making him part of the picture and the city. Moving forward, visitors will catch the glimpse of the small bricks that are far away from the screen with the light beams breaking through them creating shadows on the screen.Highlighting the the effect of social networks that makes us dwell in remote places of the city-no matter how far-by holding our screen.