The video shoot in time lapse (2 hours shooting from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm) aims to show how lights and shadows can reshape and transform the architecture and how thanks to this element the soul and identity of architecture its revealed.
Monday, 29 November 2010
A BRUTALIST MIND
when architecture is replacing your mind and your soul and takes control over you...
ARCHITECTURE IS BECOMING THE MAIN CHARACTER
Brutalist buildings have a strong and powerful clear identity and their architectural features strongly influence and guide the behavior of their inhabitants and affect their way of thinking and perceving the space and the reality. So I have started thinking how architecture itself can become the main character of a movie and if architecture has to be the main actor of the movie how to make it behave and show to create a certain feeling, atmosphere and narrative.
Here some examples of movies where architecture is the main character and highly influences the life and actions of the inhabitants
METROPOLIS
Metropolis is the perfect examples which uses the architecture as the key element to create a certain narrative and atmosphere.
All the characters are slave and highly influenced by the super modern city they have built.
Here some examples of movies where architecture is the main character and highly influences the life and actions of the inhabitants
MON ONCLE (Jaques Tati)
The scene above shows the house of Monsieur Hulot , the main character of the movie and aims to show how the architecture is the exterior representation of Hulot's interior soul, his quixotic struggle with postwar France's infatuation with modern architecture, mechanical efficiency and American-style consumerism.
While the next extract shows Villa Arpel the house Hulot's sister and her family.
M. and Mme. Arpel, are firmly entrenched in a machine-like existence of work, fixed gender roles, and the acquisition of status through possessions and conspicuous display. (A constant gag involves a fish-shaped fountain at the center of the Arpels' garden that Mme. Arpel turns on only for important visitors).
METROPOLIS
Metropolis is the perfect examples which uses the architecture as the key element to create a certain narrative and atmosphere.
All the characters are slave and highly influenced by the super modern city they have built.
Monday, 22 November 2010
Sunday, 21 November 2010
SOME STUDIES ON FILM AND ARCHITECTURE..
I am really interested in the south bank brutalist architecture because it reminds me the set of movies such as Metropolis, Blade Runner, The Fountainhead... And I really like the squared and geometrical shapes the brutalist buildings present in addition the fact that in this kind of architecture the functions and plants of the buildings are usually exposed through the harsh design of the facade.
I regard this type of architecture as very dramatic and scenic and I am interested in the investigation and development in my own work of a certain architectural-visual language proper of specific kind of cinema and movies.
In this moment I am studying a book called “Film and Architecture” (a publication of Architectural design, 1994) in order to understand in further details the relationship and the boundaries between cinema and architecture.
METROPOLIS
BLADE RUNNER
THE FOUNTAINHEAD
I regard this type of architecture as very dramatic and scenic and I am interested in the investigation and development in my own work of a certain architectural-visual language proper of specific kind of cinema and movies.
In this moment I am studying a book called “Film and Architecture” (a publication of Architectural design, 1994) in order to understand in further details the relationship and the boundaries between cinema and architecture.
METROPOLIS
THE FOUNTAINHEAD
Monday, 8 November 2010
SOUTH BANK DENSITY
The map above highlights the most populated and unpopulated areas in the Southbank.
It is a helpful tool to understand the density of people and which are the ares most used and inhabited.
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