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VRML Models
Cashier Hall, Goetheanum
(designed by Winfried Reindl, 1983)

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The sculpted walls of the Cashier Hall
which is located on the ground floor of the Goetheanum between the western staircase and the bookshop,
inspired me to a series of 3 related VRML models.
The first one simulates the space as it is.
The second model is animated and starts with a stereotype of a cashier hall as I remember them from the 60s:
a big, empty hall with small windows equally spaced along one wall - the model eventually morphs into the much more humane Reindl version.
The third model is basically the same as the second one, but an additional 'Stop' button lets you stop the morph process at any stage.

All 3 Cashier Hall VRML Models
(592KB - zipped)
can be downloaded in one compressed zip file.

Save the file to disk,
extract and start each model No#
with the file: cashierNo#.wrl


Detail of bench support and bookshop doors.


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The individual VRML Models


Looking towards the bookshop.
Looking towards the cashier windows. 		VRML Model No1
(372KB - zipped)

Download the model
as a zip file, save to disk, extract and start the model with the file:
cashierNo1.wrl

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Starting configuration of the 'well ordered' cashier hall. 		Click on the START button and watch the walls slowly bulge into the final shape of the cashier hall. Whilst it is possible to navigate within the model during the morph process, collision detection works only for the moving avatar and not for the moving walls and there is a danger of ending up outside the model.

VRML Model No2
(355KB - zipped)

Download the model as a zip file,
save to disk, extract and
start the model with the file:
cashierNo2.wrl

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Looking towards the staircase.
Partially morphed walls. 		In this model the morph process can be stopped at any time. People have been included to give a sense of scale.

VRML Model No3
(417KB - zipped)

Download the model
as a zip file, save to disk, extract and start the model with the file:
cashierNo3.wrl

Horst Kiechle Subliminal Structures Models Cashier Hall