Upload
felex-lau
View
563
Download
2
Tags:
Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
Symbolic Architecture
Chief Architect, One State
@ We
@ We
@ We
Residential Zone
Prehistoric Museum + Ancient House
Auditoriums 1-1300
Auditoriums 1301-1500
Government facilities
Industrial Zone
The Cube
The Integral (under construction)
Accumulator
Marvels of the One State 1
Cube Plaza. Sixty-six powerful concentric circles: the stands. And
sixty-six rows: quiet, bright faces and eyes reflecting… the radiance
of the One State. P. 41
Sixty-six rows
Sixty-six rows Name of Allah in Abjad numerals
Sixty-six rows Name of Allah in Abjad numerals
Cube-shaped All 12 sides of equal length, whole
Sixty-six rows Name of Allah in Abjad numerals
Cube-shaped All 12 sides of equal length, whole
Worship and execution Sense of fear towards the State and the Benefactor
“And, fluttering in an invisible wind, the criminal walked, slowly – a step up, and another, and then a pace, the last of his life – and he, with his face to the sky, his head thrown back, stood on his very own final plot.” P. 43
Height
Height Creating fear
Government buildings 2
“A glass room, full of golden fog. Glass ceilings, colored bottles, jars. Wires. Bluish sparks inside tubes.” P. 64
“Bluish sparks”, “golden fog”, “colored bottles”… D 503’s rare experience with color, sense of misery
Propaganda in Action 3
“All those who are able are required to create treatises, epics, manifestos, odes, or any other composition addressing the beauty and majesty of the One State. These works will be the first cargo of the Integral” P. 3
Spreading of propaganda through literature Internally: the ciphers Externally: where the Integral reaches
“The auditorium. An enormous, sun-saturated hemisphere of glass expanses. Circular rows of noble, spherical, smoothly sheared heads.”
P. 16
Glass structured The focus is on the entire state but not what is on the stage
Enclosed area for forced propaganda Ciphers are forced to listen to talks held in the auditoriums
Glass structured The focus is on the entire state but not what is on the stage
Enclosed area for forced propaganda Ciphers are forced to listen to talks held in the auditoriums
Glass structured The focus is on the entire state but not what is on the stage
Prison?
“At the end of the avenue, where the Accumulator Tower was sounding threateningly, we came upon a quadrilateral: guards at the front, behind and on the sides; three ciphers in unifs in the middle with their golden badges already removed – and everything was terrifyingly clear” P. 110
“At the end of the avenue, where the Accumulator Tower was sounding threateningly, we came upon a quadrilateral: guards at the front, behind and on the sides; three ciphers in unifs in the middle with their golden badges already removed – and everything was terrifyingly clear” P. 110
Detached
“At the end of the avenue, where the Accumulator Tower was sounding threateningly, we came upon a quadrilateral: guards at the front, behind and on the sides; three ciphers in unifs in the middle with their golden badges already removed – and everything was terrifyingly clear” P. 110
Symbol of power
Detached
“At the end of the avenue, where the Accumulator Tower was sounding threateningly, we came upon a quadrilateral: guards at the front, behind and on the sides; three ciphers in unifs in the middle with their golden badges already removed – and everything was terrifyingly clear” P. 110
Symbol of power
Symbol of fear
Detached
Cipher’s daily lives 4
А Б В Г Д
Е Ё Ж З И Й К
Л М Н О П
Т У Ф Х Ц
Р
С2
С1
Ч Ш
Щ Ъ Ы Ь Э
Ю Я
Numbers on the door: 320, 326…330, yes! P. 192
А Б В Г Д
Е Ё Ж З И Й К
Л М Н О П
Т У Ф Х Ц
Р
С2
С1
Ч Ш
Щ Ъ Ы Ь Э
Ю Я
A B V G D
Е YO ZH Z I Y K
L М N О P
T U F KH TS
R
S2
S1
CH SH
SHCH -‐ Y ‘ E
YU YA
“[R’s room] was as if – well, everything was exactly like mine: the Table, the glass of the
chairs, table, closet, and bed.” P. 38
Conformity
Equality
“The pipes of the Music Factory rang out the March harmoniously – the everyday March. What indescribable charm – this everydayness, repetitiveness, this reflectivity!” P. 123
Repetition
Repetition
Lack of creativity Over-reliance on logic and science
Cipher’s Personal Hours 5
“I walked on foot along the X axis (Fifty-ninth avenue) and the origin of the coordinates. / […] I purposefully chose to walk, not along the hypotenuse, but along the two perpendiculars. And here I was on the second perpendicular: a section of the circular street at the foot of the Green Wall.” P. 82
Roads in straight lines Belief to mathematics
“Not long ago I had to calculate the curvature of a new model of street diaphragm (now these elegantly
decorated diaphragms are on every avenue, recording street conversations for the Bureau of Guardians). And I
remember: each was a concave, pink, quivering membrane; they were strange organisms, made up of
only one organ – an ear.” P. 48
Monitoring of the ciphers
“The glimmering of mirrors, gloomy closets, intolerably multi-colored sofas, a vast “fireplace”, and a mahogany bed. The only evidence of our contemporary, excellent, transparent, and eternal glass was in their pathetic, fragile, mini-quadrilateral windows.” P. 26
“Amid the multicolored noise that stifles the logical process of thought: the red, the green, the bronze-yellow, the white, the orange colors” P. 152
Colors are distracting to ciphers!
Colors are distracting to ciphers!
Rejection to the past Belief that the State’s way is the only correct way
Recap 6
Demonstrate power and authority
Spread propaganda
Show conformity and allegiance
Rejection to nature & past
Reliance of mathematics
The End. Thanks!
References
Aichberger, Markus. “yellow window…”. Photograph. Flickr. Yahoo!, 10 Oct 2008. Web. 1 Jan 2013. <h}p://www.flickr.com/
photos/sliceoflife/2932452978/>
Carver, Jack. “Street life 2”. Photograph. Flickr. Yahoo!, 12 Dec 2011. Web. 1 Jan 2013. <h}p://www.flickr.com/photos/
jackcarver/6512669801/>
Leung, Dennis. “G11 Leaders 2012-‐13 The Serious Part (To be con�nued)”. Photograph. Facebook. Facebook, 29 Sept 2012. Web.
1 Jan 2013. <h}ps://www.facebook.com/photo.php?�id=10151177923697300&set=a.
10151176938842300.467744.738637299&type=3&theater>
Liquid|||. “Lab`s Instruments”. Photograph. Flickr. Yahoo!, 4 Aug 2009. Web. 1 Jan 2013. <h}p://www.flickr.com/photos/
liquidms/3789966959/>
Powers, Robert. “Aerial south side”. Photograph. Flickr. Yahoo!, 28 Dec 2008. Web. 1 Jan 2013. <h}p://www.flickr.com/photos/
repowers/3163617435/>
Zamya�n, Yevgeny. We. New York: The Modern Library. 2006. Print.