Emerging Architectures on SecondLife

From CloudPad

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Sacred Structures

(wishing to be built)

a compendium of structures still to be created within SecondLife


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)

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...?

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)