Fantasy Architecture

FANTASY ARCHITECTURE ALYSSA MOYER 2018

ALYSSA MOYER INDEPENDENT STUDY ADVISED BY ANDREW HART FANTASY ARCHITECTURE UTILIZES VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUES AND TECHNOLOGIES TO DEVELOP A SERIES OF IMAGES BASED ON PHRASES TAKEN FROM ITALO CALVINO’S INVISIBLE CITIES. EACH CHARRETTE LASTED ONE OR TWO WEEKS TO FORCE QUICK DECISIONS AND AS MANY FINAL IMAGES AS POSSIBLE TO PREPARE FOR THE FAIRY TALE ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION. THIS EXPLORATION HAS BEEN HEAVILY BASED ON THE PROCESS AND ‘MESS’ OF CREATING THE FINAL IMAGE. EXCERPTS FROM INVISIBLE CITIES WERE USED VERSUS VISUALIZING AN ENTIRE CITY IN ORDER TO LET THE IMAGE BE MORE OPEN ENDED AND LET THE PROCESS TAKE CONTROL TO DEVELOP A RESULT THAT IS LESS PREDICTABLE. EACH CHARRETTE BEGAN WITH AN IMAGE LIBRARY AND A SET OF RULES TO FOLLOW. THEN, EXCERPTS FROM THE INVISIBLE CITIES WERE SELECTED QUICKLY - SOMETIMES JUST BY OPENING THE BOOK AND PICKING A SENTENCE. ONCE ENOUGH CONSTRAINTS WERE SET, IMAGES WERE QUICKLY PRODUCED TO GET AN IDEA OF WHAT IS WORKING AND WHAT IS NOT. AFTER DETERMINING WHAT WORKS, SELECTED IMAGES WERE REFINED INTO A FINAL PRODUCT.

TA B L E O F C O N T E N T S CHARRETTE I

4-9

CHARRETTE II

10-11

CHARRETTE III

12-19

CHARRETTE IV

20-25

CHARRETTE V

26-31

THE PROCESS

32-43

CHARRETTE 1 “THE TRAVELER SEES NOT ONE CITY, BUT MANY...ONLY ONE IS INHABITED AT A TIME, THE OTHERS ARE EMPTY...”

-EUTROPIA

4

5

CHARRETTE 1 “...THE NEXT CITY, WHICH IS THERE WAITING FOR THEM, EMPTY AND GOOD AS NEW...”

-EUTROPIA

6

7

CHARRETTE 1 “THUS THE CITY REPEATS ITS LIFE, IDENTICAL, SHIFTING UP AND DOWN ON ITS EMPTY CHESSBOARD.” -EUTROPIA

8

9

CHARRETTE 2 MAN-MADE PARASITES

10

11

CHARRETTE 3 “...THE PEOPLE WHO MOVE THROUGH THE STREETS ARE ALL STRANGERS.” -CHLOE ALDO ROSSI. THE ANALOGOUS CITY STEVEN QUEVEDO. UNKNOWN

12

13

CHARRETTE 3 “SUSPENDED OVER THE ABYSS, THE LIFE OF OCTAVIA’S INHABITANTS IS LESS UNCERTAIN THAN IN OTHER CITIES.”

-OCTAVIA

14

15

CHARRETTE 3 “MEMORY IS REDUNDANT: IT REPEATS SIGNS SO THAT THE CITY CAN BEGIN TO EXIST.” -ZIRMA

16

17

CHARRETTE 3 “MEMORY IS REDUNDANT: IT REPEATS SIGNS SO THAT THE CITY CAN BEGIN TO EXIST.” -ZIRMA

18

19

CHARRETTE 4 “I FOLLOWED THE ALPHABETICAL ORDER OF VANISHED ALPHABETS, UP AND DOWN HALLS, STAIRS, BRIDGES.”

-HYPATIA

20

21

CHARRETTE 4 “I FOLLOWED THE ALPHABETICAL ORDER OF VANISHED ALPHABETS, UP AND DOWN HALLS, STAIRS, BRIDGES.”

-HYPATIA

22

23

CHARRETTE 4 “I FOLLOWED THE ALPHABETICAL ORDER OF VANISHED ALPHABETS, UP AND DOWN HALLS, STAIRS, BRIDGES.”

-HYPATIA

24

25

CHARRETTE 5 “ABANDONED BEFORE AND AFTER IT WAS INHABITED, ARMILLA CANNOT BE CALLED DESERTED.”

-ARMILLA

26

27

CHARRETTE 5 “YOU FOLLOW ZIZAG LINES FROM ONE STREET TO ANOTHER...A DOOR HERE, A STAIRWAY THERE...”

-PHYLLIS

28

29

CHARRETTE 5 “THE CITY IS OVER THE VOID...”

-OCTAVIA

30

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ALYSSA MOYER 2018