Games we will play

This video walk through won second prize last month in the Design For The Children competition, which asked, “architects and designers from around the world to develop a sustainable, culturally responsive, pediatric clinic model for East Africa”. LCA is a Sydney practice taking to games software keenly. I guess it’s the way of the future, but I kept expecting someone to jump out of a door way with an AK47. They have a much bigger version of the vid on their front page at the moment.

Russell Lowe (FBE UNSW) wrote an article about animation in architecture last month (which is where I found LCA). He says, “If we take a look at [these architects’] present we’ll get a pretty good idea of what the future holds for the rest of the profession.”

LCA Team: Lara Calder, Martin McCarthy, Katherine Eustace, Andrew Wallace, Jason Tan.

Now that I’ve finished downloading the whole LCA video using my pathetic internet stick, I am left asking – why does the guy walk quickly through every corridor in the empty clinic and then come to a stop in the middle of the road outside? Where is everyone? Why didn’t he lock his truck? I can see that we’ll be demanding plots soon.

Posted by Peter on 16.06.09 in video clips and visualisations