Emerging Architectures on SecondLife

From CloudPad

Table of contents

1 Sacred Structures 2 Edutainment Realms 3 Memory Palaces 4 Already created and accessible on SL: 5 Notable Projects to watch/ in development

Sacred Structures

(wishing to be built)

a compendium of structures still to be created within SecondLife

• kalachakra mandala (http://kalachakranet.org/mandala_kalachakra.html)
• Maitreya Statue (http://www.maitreya-statue.org/en/index.html)
• Stupas (http://fpmt.org/projects/stupa/default.asp)
• Prayer Wheels (http://fpmt.org/projects/mani/default.asp)

Temple Complexes

• Angkor Wat (http://www.astro.isas.jaxa.jp/~takahasi/Photo/AngKor-Wat.jpg)]
  • scaled-down model (http://www.danciprari.com/images/worldtrip/cambodia/ca-phno-silver-pagoda-angkor-wat-model-2-600.jpg)
• Meenakshi Temple: The figures of dieties on the tower are repaired, repainted and ritually reconsecrated every 12 years.
  • [Meenakshi Temple- Madurai] Immense portals or gopurams,elaborately painted terra cotta figures, magnificent stone carvings- built in the 17th century.
  • Hall of a Thousand Pillars (http://img144.exs.cx/img144/1720/indiathousandpillarhallmeenaks.jpg). Another set of musical pillars, each carved out of a single block of granite into 22 slender rods, emit musical notes when tapped.
• Temple of Karnak (http://gerard.homann.free.fr/maq_karn.htm)

Window on the World (http://www.chinatravelone.com/english/themepark/windowworld/introduce.htm)

built?: Medicine Buddha Mandala (http://www.unfrozenmind.com/blog/2007/10/20/medicine-buddha-mandala-dedicated-to-the-people-of-burma-simulcast-on-second-life/) in real and second life

Edutainment Realms

(wishing to be built)

• Buckyworld
  • GeoScope (http://www.earthscope.com/geoscope.html)
  • World Game (http://www.osearth.com/ws_history.shtml)
• Interfaith Point - show film Fire on the Mountain: A Gathering of Shamans (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4749156257249602834)
• Tesseract Town
• BOREALIS CITY
• Pier10/on BetterWorldIsland
• Connecting BetterWorldIslands- charity awareness and microphilanthropy

Memory Palaces

• Memory Palace CoLab
• gradual transition to information embedded objects/realms
• each 'home' is an interface to shareable files and links
• memory palaces and Memory Palaces 2
  • CloudPad:)- a labyrinthian semi-transparent structure literally in the air/clouds of SL,

with 'pages' as rooms...?

• • A room/tribute for my father-AvaD
  • 22 Babcock-AvaD
  • Mita's House-AvaD

Already created and accessible on SL:

• BetterWorldIsland
• SL's first Interfaith Temple (http://www.livejournal.com/users/avad/107288.html#cutid1)
• SupportForHealing Island by Zafu Diamond
• Temple of the Buddha
• LivetoGive Island
• Burning Life (Modhuine), 231, 26, 28

Notable Projects to watch/ in development

• The Manor- Amoration
• InnerLife (http://gaeacoop.org/cgi-bin/InnerLife/index.cgi)