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Puga, Sandra

For decades, the forces of finance have increasingly come to control how we design buildings. Through the rise of finance capitalism, a growing wall of fictitious capital has come to rule global economies. Money without any basis in productive activity or tangible commodities; in essence a virtualized money. As this wall grows, it continues to seek out assets in which to land, exhausting the physical economy and virtualizing everything in its path. This has manifested in the rise of a neoliberalist style proliferating sterile, standardized buildings designed to serve the needs of capital over those of their inhabitants. Utilizing the inherently virtualized ownership model of the presale condominium, this thesis looks to alternative modes of non-material ownership, delving into the world of the post-material, the metaverse and virtual reality. Through the medium of virtual reality, the project plays out a parafictional future, existing in the overlap between present fact and impending fiction. To raise questions about the shifting future of the profession and the experience and meaning of architecture. A shift that we as designers are not ready for.

Graduating Project

eng

2023-05-04

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/84564

UBCV

Graduate

DSpace