After several years of planning, modifying and even heading back to the drawing board, the Cushing Village Team has come up with a new design that excels in both form and function. The new Cushing Village distributes the building mass in a pleasing manner and has such an architecturally and visually rich character that the buildings appear to have organically grown from the neighborhood over the years and decades. However, as beautiful as the new design is, we feel our new vision for Cushing Village cannot be truly appreciated until residents can experience the finished product in-person. While Belmont residents cannot walk through a project that does not exist, we can offer the next best thing - a 3D model, in Second Life® (SL) - a popular virtual world, that allows visitors, in the form of avatars (your representation in the virtual world), to walk the streets of Cushing Square and experience our vision for Cushing Village first-hand.
For the past couple of months, the CV team has been working with famed SL modeler ("builder") Barnesworth Anubis (a.k.a. Adam Adler of Colorado), to create a full scale replica of Cushing Village. Within the 3D virtual model, buildings are to scale and modeled with "materials" that are true to life in color and texture. When avatars visit this parcel of virtual land that contains the 3D, full color, replica, they will not only see Cushing Village, but they will experience it, in its context and massing. The roads, grounds and sidewalks will be there, complete with realistic topographical features and landscaping. Even some of the surrounding neighborhood will be there, accurate to scale.
During the next Planning Board meeting this Tuesday, March 13th, the Second Life model will be unveiled in the form of a short film that will provide a virtual tour of the outside of the development as well as the eye-view from the surrounding neighborhoods. As promised in our newsletter, scroll below to see some still shots from the 3D project as it looked earlier today!
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