The boundary between physical and virtual space - the in-between condition - is the subject of an increasing interest within the architectural discourse. 
This paper is an attempt to advance the theme of augmentation by applying it to the function of a specific public context, thus, exacerbating this coterminous boundary into becoming a different experience, whether, as Michel de Certeau suggests, an overview, a labyrinthic route through, or some other kind of hybrid experience in this context.
We propose a spatio-temporal intervention, or an augmentation, to be applied to a bus-stop, as an example of a public context. A camera is installed inside a bus to capture the bus route, as experienced by people inside it, and the captured video transmitted, in real-time, to the semi-transparent screens of the bus-stop. It makes it available, thus, to the pedestrians waiting, transmitting them virtually to the point of the route where the bus is, at each simultaneous moment. The semi-transparent screens allow multiple layers of experience and vision, however, construed differently: one layer of the captured and transmitted video of the route, and one of the actual view of the road. The overlapping then coinciding of both layers signals the arrival of the bus, and frames the intentional conscious experience of being-in-the-world. 
“Our own body is in the world as the heart is in the organism.”  In other words, our bodies are implicated in our experience, or our embodiment in the world constructs physical interaction because our recognition and interpretation of this interaction is embodied. 
This design experimentation provides an insight into different modes of space representation - in this case, physical, augmented or virtual space – and the type of experience triggered by their juxtaposition.
Consciousness denotes a state of being-in-the-world, in which, we actively assign meanings to objects beyond their actual properties perceived by our senses. Hence, pedestrians waiting in the bus-stop project themselves to the bus, which is not there yet. They start their virtual trip upon their arrival in the bus-stop, and then materialise it when they take the bus upon its arrival. The bus stop “brings” us the bus, and also the experience of the city that it carries.
We investigate, thus, how the simultaneous labyrinthic navigation and the moving or “shifting” “overview” enrich our experience of the city and “bring forth” the function of the bus-stop as an intermediate space of transition. 
We also question the way in which one perceives his/her own body spatiality and motility in physical, augmented and virtual environments, and how the particular kind of experience created by this juxtaposition, “brings forth” one’s awareness of his/her navigation in the city, or the instrumentality of the specific place.
Our theoretical approach highlights issues pertaining to embodiment, spatiality, consciousness, intentionality, virtuality and immateriality.

(458 words)

Selected Bibliography:
Coyne, R.D. (2002). The cult of the not-yet. In Designing for a Digital World. Ed Neil Leach. London: Wiley-Academic, 45-48.
Dourish, P.: (2001), Where the Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction, Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press.
Johnson, Mark: (1996). The body in the mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice: (2003) Phenomenology of Perception. Trans. Colin Smith. London and New York: Routledge Classics. 
De Certeau, Michel: (1984) The Practice of Everyday Life. Trans. Steven Rendall. University of California Press.

 1. Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Phenomenology of Perception. Trans. Colin Smith (London and New York: Routledge Classics. 2003).P235