— Project 05 / Basic Design I
De Stijl Promenade.
'City of Colors'.
A first-year studio exercise — designing a city in the visual language of De Stijl, where each modular cube is imbued with a distinct color and inhabitants traverse the city as a sequence of perceptual transitions.
- Year
- 2021
- Type
- Basic Design Studio I
- Semester
- Fall 2021–2022
- Reference
- De Stijl movement / Mondrian
- Output
- Modular installation + drawings
- Role
- Designer (individual)
The purpose of this project, which I completed during the first semester of my first year, was to create a city designed in the style of a selected art movement and to construct a narrative and program for that city. The story of the city I designed in the De Stijl style is as follows:
In the City of Colors, a generic illness emerged decades ago that caused everyone to become color-blind. In response, the architects living there designed a city composed of modules, each imbued with a different color that allows inhabitants to perceive that specific hue when they enter the module. In this way, people can walk through the city and experience the colors as they move from one module to another.
The model has different modules — opaque cubes from one side, but if you look at the surface from any angle, the colors blend together so you cannot see, but you can also see colors not visible from outside.
