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This is an example of using Keyhole Markup Language (KML) to visualise project specific information via the Web, thus enabling a virtual spatial dimension. It is my aim to link all elements of the project in this way from process 3D massing to infrastructural analysis of the city network. I have introduced a feed from Flickr but also geometries synchronised with a Web server; both will accrue information over time. The site is highlighted in magenta.

The image above depicts Dennis Crompton’s Computer City (1964) which provides inspiration towards my impending physical modelling. Beyond a more conventional representation of the surrounding urban milieu (block massing etc.) I intend to model certain aspects of the ‘virtual’ but physically. In addition I would like to explore the possibility of augmenting other layers of information (traffic patterns, pedestrian densities or building IP tags) within this model using a locator and software such as ARTag.