Stair Into Space (2018)

Immersive installation

Augmented reality

Class: Interactivity and Computation, Fall 2018

Contributors: Nick Diamant

For this project we were tasked to create a site-specific AR sculpture. Nick and I decided to use the staircase next to our classroom as a means to experience the different layers of Earth—sea, land, sky, and space. Nick’s summary:

Stair Into Space superimposes a world of many wonders on top of the CFA staircase, and thereby transforms the act of walking up stairs into an exploration of a space from a perspective that would otherwise be impossible. One cannot normally freely move up and down in a space unless there are assisting structures. Our project utilizes existing structures as a means for moving about in an imagined world. Therefore, the viewer exploits the architectural reality in order to see an augmented one.