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Princeton University in Second Life announces "Diversity"on the Princeton Groups Sim Scope Cleaver- Architect Poid Mahovlich - Terraform Artist Machinima by Michael Verdi The "Diversity" building on Princeton Groups island is intended as a social gathering place for Princeton University student groups and organizations. The commission stipulated a warm and friendly location where students could meet, chat, and organize events in Second Life. The resulting sim is a thoughtful contrast of Second Life resources with real world concerns. The stark, evocative landscape provides a foil for the elegance of the architectural composition. The central building's rainbow colors exemplify the lively, multicultural community for whom it was built. The present generation of Princeton students will someday grapple with the environmental issues suggested in the desert terrain of the sim. "Diversity" is architect Scope Cleaver's fifth building on the Princeton University in Second Life islands. Like his other full-sim composition at Princeton in SL--Alexander Beach--it shows an expansive use of scale that unexpectedly creates intimate social spaces. Uncharacteristic of Scope are the warm, organic building textures, which underscore the building's function as a community center. The organic theme is carried into the building's massing, originally suggested to the architect by a photograph of a nautilus shell. Poid Mahovlich, SL terraformer, designed and executed a landscape that would ...

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