Causeway
Causeway was a web-based 3d world accomodating simultaneous visitors, featuring original digital artworks. The space was designed to be labyrinthine, eerie, and dreamlike. During a virtual open house, visitors to the space described feelings of loneliness, mystery, and contemplation of the infinite. Formerly the space could be explored through Mona, a web platform for virtual worlds created in the game engine Unity. Since the platform's disbanding, Causeway awaits a remastered self-release...
"A strange garden of forms sits atop an endless embankment, flanked by shallow seas in a grayscale dreamscape; some kind of stopover on an artificial land bridge, its builders long-gone and its purpose unknown. Brutalist galleries, stark vistas, and strange artifacts await the explorer."
Part of the design process included imagining a font that captured both the soft dreaminess of the space and the stark brutalism of its forms.
The images below are from a series of folly studies for the space.
At a basic level the construction of the space is simply a layered assemblage of objects like these, like stacked blocks.
Inspiration was taken from the technique of "kitbashing."
