Noor Architects explores architecture and the metaverse
Noor Architects joins the metaverse with a virtual architecture studio and ‘post-architectural’ explorations
Led by its principal, Noor Dasmesh Singh, Noor Architects has entered the metaverse. The Chandigarh-based studio recently joined this expanded virtual space with a specially created extension of its physical practice, opening up possibilities for experimentation, exploration and perhaps solutions that can reflect back to the material world in the future. ‘Our deep-rooted modernist ethos has lent a clean, almost monumental-scale space that is encased by inclined surfaces printed out of soil,’ says Singh. We have joined him in a discussion about the opportunities this new dimension has to offer.
The metaverse and Noor Dasmesh Singh
Noor Dasmesh Singh. Photography: Ashish Sahi
W*: What inspired you to create a metaverse studio?
NDS: This started out as a purely academic exercise within our practice’s think tank Roon (mirror of Noor). The metaverse intrigued us and the quest to know more about this hyper-reality began about nine…
Noor Architects explores architecture and the metaverse
Noor Architects joins the metaverse with a virtual architecture studio and ‘post-architectural’ explorations
Led by its principal, Noor Dasmesh Singh, Noor Architects has entered the metaverse. The Chandigarh-based studio recently joined this expanded virtual space with a specially created extension of its physical practice, opening up possibilities for experimentation, exploration and perhaps solutions that can reflect back to the material world in the future. ‘Our deep-rooted modernist ethos has lent a clean, almost monumental-scale space that is encased by inclined surfaces printed out of soil,’ says Singh. We have joined him in a discussion about the opportunities this new dimension has to offer.
The metaverse and Noor Dasmesh Singh
Noor Dasmesh Singh. Photography: Ashish Sahi
W*: What inspired you to create a metaverse studio?
NDS: This started out as a purely academic exercise within our practice’s think tank Roon (mirror of Noor). The metaverse intrigued us and the quest to know more about this hyper-reality began about nine…
