Syntopia 2 – Omada I Group

»Syntopia 2—Omada I Group« is an exploration of the formation of space by a group of people. Using a hand-based Augmented Reality (AR) framework a filament-structure is spun by hand which gradually envelopes its makers. »Syntopia 2« is part of a collection of architectural prototypes investigating the notion of »syntopy«, a term which has been coined in biology by Luis René Rivas in 1964. The term is a combination of the Greek words syn* meaning together and *topos meaning place. Developing »Syntopia« therefore means creating material structures whose resources come from the place—the topos—where they are located and which are embedded in the local ecological systems in the long term.