Re-description of the Hybrid Public Spaces in Moscow Using Extended Reality Tools

There has been a growing development especially in a lockdown situation about the application of extended reality technology and other digital products in an urban context. This phenomenon is accompanied by several technical and personal inconveniences in the use of augmented reality technologies. AR glasses have not yet entered everyday use, and the smartphone does not provide the proper level of immersion. However, in crisis, when urban spaces are not able to fully provide citizens with all the benefits of being there, the development of the digital level of public space is a promising direction for ensuring proactive appropriation of urban space, a new type of social interaction and imparting mnemonic meaning to non-places. This thesis offers some points of philosophical base and possible technical implementation of urban models' digital shell. It is important to consider the city not only in terms of urban planning and architecture but also as a social structure. Based on this statement, the current urban planning model based on material design is criticized and the semilattice structure is taken as the framework model. Superposition and intersection are provided by soft intervention methods on the digital layer of the city. The discussion thus identifies the common principles of public spaces re-description using extended reality tools. This paper is useful as a revitalization point of the discussion around the revision of basic urban models that do not consider the digitalization process. The wide scope for criticism of this study is also a positive factor in the development of such researches and prototypes. The Project Proposal will focus on constructing a general algorithm for the creation of hybrid public spaces to provide a new proactive experience of assigning urban structures. The visual solution for the digital shell is speculative and intended to reflect the issue of meta-place representation in urban fabric representation. Algorithm design was chosen as a tool for constructing digital objects, as an adaptive design method capable of responding to changes in incoming data and taking into account the environment. The visual part of the Project Proposal is controversial and its goal is to provoke criticism and broad discussion of the issue of digital level intervention in public space.