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Divergence
of the Buddhist Experience
Creative Platform of Experience Manifestation
For long, Buddhism has spread and materialize its ideology
and teachings through the experience created by architecture and ceremonies
that the Buddhist perceive in order to plant and manifest the idea into ones
mind. Religions have always use tangible matters to create a designated
experiences for the users and believer as a method of implanting the teachings.
Things like architecture, murals, and, ornaments are a tool to portray and
deliver the message through the perception of the viewer. Divergence of the Buddhist
Experience is a virtual space that allows the user to illustrate and
materialize their envisagement of the experience that they desire to enhance
the Buddhist practices and ceremonies according to the individual preference. Each
contribution from the user will then be used to form a creative network
platform that act as an archive to store all the designed virtual spaces that
can be shared and accessed by every user. The virtual space accessible both
online and onsite. The constructed virtual space will be used to house virtual
16 meters tall Phra Sri San Phet, the same as what the Grand Hall used to
function. Each space will then be used for Buddhist practices and ceremonies,
accessible by the people onsite and online.
By analyzing the elements in religious places or spaces, one
will find that every single element is designed with a specific grammar in order
to create a desired effect. At Wat Leng Nei Yi II in Nonthaburi, many
elements such as Buddha image and ornaments that contain this ethereal quality,
acting as a portal of mind that brings people to other place within their inner
consciousness which is a place they themselves created.
Both the Bussabok and the 9/11 Memorial shares
the same logic in which its physical quality was designed to with similar
qualities to the designated ethereal space, either through shapes, form, or the
experience that they give off. They all have a specific language that once analyzed,
can be extract and rearrange, introducing a sequence or diversity, a way these
object can be perceive to better experience and understand it. Once a
rearranged, a virtual grammar is formed, leading to the construction of the
virtual pavilion, in this case Portal of the Inner Conciousness. It is a
space that brings the analysis of the two objects together and take the
advantage of the spatial quality to, forming a new sequence of perception and
comparison between the two. By being in the space, people may be able to
scrutinize and experience the quality of these objects.
With this same core concept, Divergence of the Buddhist
Experience enables the user to manifest and illustrate their inner
consciousness, the way how they envisage the space through the existing Phra
Sri San Phet virtual Buddha Image. The Thai Buddhist ceremonies was
analyzed to see how each one is carried out and what elements are essential to
create the necessary experience of each ceremony. After extracting all the
essential elements, the virtual grammar is created, acting as a tool for the
user to construct their own virtual space. Here in the virtual space, the
grammar are the choices and scope of the design that the user will be dealing
with, contributing a new diversity for the existing Buddhist practice.
The user who is on the real physical site of Wat Phra Sri
Sanphet Grand Hall will be granted access to the design interface via the
creative virtual headset consisting of a virtual ocular device with a camera
attachment to record the surroundings, a hand gesture recognition device, and a
built in open back headphone, allowing them to see, hear, and manipulate the
virtual elements respectively, of both the design interface and the constructed
virtual space. Only the user onsite will be able to construct the virtual space
as they will be able to perceive and scrutinize the context, ambient
atmosphere, and variables of the physical site. The user will be given the
constructed virtual grammar that act as a foundation where they will be
constructing upon. Every architectural design element will be placed on the same
existing layout of the ruin.
The design interface aids the user by enabling the new perception
through transition of reality such as the ability to see sound, enhancing the
creativity and as well as truly understand every single choice and element that
they choose.
Each choice being made will be shown to the user instantly
so that they may experience their creation in real time to achieve the desired
effects. They will interact with the design interface through physical body
contact with the virtual elements which will response with the user for every
certain body gesture. Once the virtual space has been constructed, it will be
stored in the online archive of each individual account. It is an interactive
platform where different users can access and experience every virtual space
through the same medium of the virtual headset and a 3d scanner to record their
body and transform that into digital format into the online network. This
network allows the Buddhist society from all around the world to form a new
community through virtual space that doesn’t just give the user conventional
spaces but a holistic archive where contribution creates the network itself. The
users are able to interact with other online and onsite user who chooses the
same space to perform the practices and ceremonies together.
This interactive network is designed to blur the demarcation
of ideology on how Buddhist practices and ceremonies should be experience.
Being a core of the space, the Buddha image act as a portal in which the user
is able to materialize and manifest their thoughts of the new space should be.
This space embraces different perspectives from both Buddhist and non-Buddhist
user, creating a divergence to enhance the experience.
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