City Site

A/L/D

Our goal was to investigate the transition from a dystopic setting and theme, to create a very chaotic environment and then contrast that with a more luscious setting-a utopia. The location is the vector arena and the apartment‘s at its opposite end.  The Vector arena stadium exudes a failry modernistic design and represents a form of modern architecture to create a fairly sophisticated design form and style. It was thought appropriate that a 'symbol' of modernity and elegance through design was to be the representation of the fall of the human race ecologically and socially. This image was cast on a dark, gloomy setting with the building itself fallen into disrepair, Its moniker partially missing, cars stacked on top of each other with shatterred windows and old newspapers blowing about in the wind.

The second setting is a carpark beside a courtyard pond area for a living complex. We sectioned this image to show the cars within the parking area itself, witch we agreed conveyed a sense of an industrialised,  urban environment and so conveyed a fairly dystopic theme. Yet, with the courtyard area in front of it conveyed the exact opposite - that idea of a utopia. So with