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Mahalla: Urban Rural Living is an exhibition and research project about the urban neighbourhoods in Uzbekistan known as mahallas. The project, curated by Christ & Gantenbein, explores potential answers to the question raised by the 17th Architecture Venice Biennale itself: How will we live together?
We developed the Mahalla: Urban Rural Living app, enabling users to explore authentic urban contexts in Tashkent through interactive 3D point cloud models of six mahalla houses, navigated via the device’s gyroscope. The experience is enriched with floor plans, maps, archive images, and local sounds by Carlos Casas.
The interface is both simple and engaging, giving importance to the aestethic value of the point clouds and archive materials.
The official website of the Uzbekistan National Pavilion displays interactive objects taken directly from the point clouds, overlapping contents, images and some random and “glitchy” buttons.