The Third Space investigates the evolution of the domestic realm as a result of transformations occurring in digital interface design, where 2D ‘point and click’ computer interfaces transition into intuitively operated 3D immersive and inhabitable digital environments.

By designing both the physical home of the future and the virtual spaces it can host, the project speculates on a post COVID-19 world, where houses do not have computers in them, but are computers themselves. The home becomes responsively robotic and rearranges itself to accommodate the resident’s virtual inhabitation, but also becomes a realm for global exploration, entertainment and deep thought.

Krina’s haptic installation, where physical anchors tether us to the ‘real world’, acts in tandem with dreamlike explorations into what might constitute ‘everyday living’. Architecture’s role in learning, working, socialising and living communally online is redefined and spatial distance collapses forming new worlds within worlds.

With ‘George XP’ as a sassy virtual companion, people dive headlong into an ever-expanding architectural universe, without having to leave the front door.