lost city
PROGRAMS
| Audio Canal | Hugging House | Wall of Sorrows |
| Dump Yard | Marco Frascari’s Tower | Water Room |
| Embassy of Catharsis | Pool of Grandmother’s Tears | Wine Cellar |
| Embassy of Secrets | Vapour Baths |
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CITIES
| Leonia | Zora | Eudoxia |
| Valdara | Clarice | Fedora |
| Phyllis | Zaira |
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PROGRAMS
The “Audio Canal” is a passage where sound travels through the city and between the buildings of the pilgrimage. It interprets sound in different ways by transforming it into motion and it offers the city a way to re-use the excess of noise of its inhabitants by turning it in to kinetic energy. Therefore, people traveling along the canal can perceive the transformation process. – Andrea
A dump yard is where citizens/visitors, when feeling negative emotions, “dump” specific objects to which they attach these feelings. It is a rundown place: an ancient building deemed unsalvageable by the city, where foragers search for treasure in the mess of discarded items, and crumbling architecture. It alludes to Zora, city forgotten through memory; it too has disintegrated, by letting go of its memories. – Julien
Zemrude wanted to establish a presence within Phyllis as well as housing their national representatives. To do so, Zemrudians incorporated the emotional extremes of their society into an embassy known as The Embassy of Catharsis. Lead to the building by inconsistencies in the surroundings the inhabitants are awoken by an unavoidable moment, in which two extreme emotions are evoked consecutively. Thus, they experience catharsis. - Jennifer
The Embassy of Secrets complies with the notion of duplicity set out by Valdrada. While Valdrada mirrors reality for new truths to emerge, the Embassy of Secrets takes in those deposited by the citizens and distorts them beyond recognition. The secretive staff working inside the exposed embassy perform this filtration process, assuring that the seemingly simple exterior contrasts with the ‘breaking off’ occurring within. - Kat
The hugging house, is a story of a man, whose wife died, and the structure is dedicated to her as a memory of her kindred spirit and his appreciation towards her. It is a structure that is a symbol of her existence that incorporates the organic flow of her body that shows her personality and incredible talent at designing beautiful saree’s with intricate details. - Nilakshi
[OLD] Architecture, appeals to all senses – an experience that begins in the body and brings one to higher levels of perception. Your nerves connect your senses, like the stories and memories within the void connect a city. This relationship is the spine of Marco Frascari’s Tower, one that is non-verbal but sensual, emotional. Looking forward, while remembering the past, it allows one to reach higher. - Camille
Fedora once built a model city in its likeness. When the project was complete, the city was no longer the same. A hole was created and the monument was placed underground. It became known as the ‘Grandmother’ as it had conceived the city of today. Visitors would mourn for what had once existed, and shed tears that eventually formed a pool around the monument. – Ionna
[OLD] A building hangs before your eyes. Your spirits lift to the high, apearently weightless place, glowing, inviting, drawing you foreward. A healing place for both body and soul. The warm vapors embrace you as you enter, and dancing light and water ammuse your eyes. The vapor kisses your skin, sinks into your pores; cleasing your body, it is easing your worries away in the wash. - Allison
My Program is “Wall of Sorrows”. I will design it to be the wall to reflect the sorrows of people passing by. It serves as an entrance to my group’s joint theme – the pilgrimage / journey. I want to show sorrowful architecture in both direct and indirect ways – by incorporating faces on the wall and making the wall look old, worn, and bending down. - Don
There is a drought in his mind. It thirsts for thought. Irritated, he wanders to quench it. He takes many paths, dehydrating his brain until he discovers Morpheus’ river. Morpheus points into the stream and swims away. He steps in. Visions flow through him. He paints forms on himself, ideas moving from water to sketchbook. Here, a new studio attempts to capture the infinite. – Thompson
Wine cellar is where all of the wine storages are line up on certain angles and nothing move around which reminds me my city Zora. In our wine cellar, we have our special wine called crazy moody wine to protect people’s memory. It allows people to forget their memories and leave it in there. Later, they can back and recollect what they have behind. - Pegah
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CITIES
Wood for a hundred
School can’t afford
That’s why we ended up
With freakin’ cardboard
Leonia, it resembles
Our city of brown paper
Where new things replace
What is rubbish later
The city rebirths
Hates the past, loves the modern
Grows so fast
But doesn’t learn
The perfect metaphor
For unrecycled trash galore
The more we cut, The more we throw
Grander our buildings grow
New materials
From the earth
Thrown Back to the outskirts
Back to the dirt
More art we work on
The better the model
Creates this garbage wall
Dangerous should it fall
We built this city
Preferring untouched sources
Easier than recycled ones
No bumps and bruises
It’s about the journey,
not the destination
keep your preliminary model
it deserves recognition
Photos I took
While everyone works
Just a reminder
We all have our quirks
A pile we formed
A mess we made
Was it all worth it?
When will it fade?
It is now our own
So It was really possible
A first group project
We just made it visible
Leonia, Cardboard City
Whatever you wanna call it
A cycle of art and junk
That’s about it
- Don
Upon arriving at our cardboard metropolis, one tries desperately to take in all the intricate little details of the city, for it is a city everyone must remember. In fact, one takes pictures and goes back and forth through the city to visits every corner, cave and crevasse, and evaluates the littlest details and largest towers. This is Zora, the city that remains in our memory, point by point, for one can easily retrace its steps, recalling different buildings and their uses and styles. It will stay in our memory through the years, as the first of our many models, and we will revisit it in our minds, choosing the things we want to remember. The school’s most learned students are indeed those who have memorized Zora. However, in vain do we attempt to capture our city, for in pictures, Zora is forced to remain untouched and this will lead to its downfall, its disintegration, its languish. Through our years of education and many projects to come, Zora will be forgotten, will escape our memories and become a part of our own atlas, one city in the mess which is our minds. - Julien
A man walked to the ally where toward to be one of the river around his city, Zora .He was walking and thinking about his city Zora, a city that no one will be remember it . Because no one would be even believe that it would be possible to believe Zora as the city “Zora, a city that no one, having seen it.” City that all streets with all unique building that no one going to remember them are along to each other with the view of mountain at the background . It seems that buildings talk to you with their curve shape structure, window detail, and remarkable different shape towers. They want you to pay attention to each of them, to feel and touch the story of behind their back. Also, Zora has the small cafe at the corner of the main street where the astronomer glass tower as one of the remarkable of the city standing where you can remember all of the memories that you have from your city. Zora is the combination of unusual image in your memory. - Pegah
The city of Eudoxia, when looked at first, reminds a person of chaos. There are buildings of all sorts everything, all shapes and sizes, and it is extremely easy for one to get lost in this city. However, when looked at closely, this city actually has a pattern, it is gridded in such a way that eventually a person will be able to remember which part of the city a certain building was from. Although there is chaos and an overwhelming amount of structures to look at, once the city is figured out, it becomes simpler and one can enjoy roaming around and not get lost. The city that we created, is a perfect representation of Eudoxia, as when you look at it its chaotic and a mix of several different types of buildings. None of which are similar to one another. No one, at first glance notices the grid that the building creates, however, when looked at closely you will notice the geometrical pattern that divides each building. This gives each building an individual charm that will help viewers/tourists remember what they saw. - Nilakshi
Valdara
Valdrada stands tall above what may at first appear to be a sheet of glass. As travelers approach from whatever direction, he/she encounters a notion of duplicity: a soaring version of the city above the reflective surface, and a reversed version underneath.
Here, one has two cities, with two town halls and two libraries. The number two becomes part of the balance. Yet, just as ‘two’ in itself, is not mirrored with the intention of creating an identical ‘two’, neither is the top city to the other. One town hall is the reversed adaptation of the other; the library, a backwards echo of the first.
The city was designed above this lake, as to document the activities of its inhabitants. Awareness grabs hold of all who enter the cities, as he/she accepts the contract made between the pair. Things are not altered, but regarded differently. The value of acts may heighten or diminish. Equality becomes impossible.
Though the siblings mirror one another, there exists no mirror capable of tantamount copies. Every act, thought and object is perfectly recorded, inverted. The cities are linked, but never through any means of chemistry. – Kat
Clarice
He is here again, our fiendish friend who comes to play. He comes unsolicited bringing death and destruction. So we run; we hide underground and share our beds with the vermin until he is gone. And when the path is cleared, we rise again and with blue skies welcoming our despaired eyes and, we take the ruins to turn them into the future of our city. What was before is now something different, what was destroyed is now renovated. So we grow higher and better than before. And after the storm, who ever comes around sees splendour and glorious skies so we rejoice of pride. We will wait patiently for destruction to come and renew our strength; for every time we fall we rise stronger. With the ruins of the past we create and innovate, and we become better. Someday, the night will whisper again: “he is here once more!” then we will run to the deep and let destruction play. We who know Clarice, we who live it , know that the beauty of our city comes from a collage of obsolete and ill-assorted pieces, recycled gimcracks and forgotten old ruins. – Andrea
How many times have these walls crumbled, only to be salvaged and used again? The
bones of this city: endlessly recycled, endlessly changed. A brick, never content
to be just what it is, is made to be a piece of a wall, a component of an archway,
the support of a tower. Likewise, whole elements are reused and repurposed. A dome
becomes a bath, a stairway a cieling, the very floorboards pulled up to cover a
roof. In this way Clarice clings to the remnants of her past by erasing it utterly.
To survive, Clarice became a puzzel of odd pieces. You only get what you’re given.
The trick lies in how they come together, and what they create when they do. The
urge to preserve the past is ever present here, so they erect museums trying to
collect what has long been forgotten and see it for what it once was. The city has
survived, and will keep on surviving, but it can never return to what it was. It is
different, and though it may try to emulate the past, it will never understand what
it is mimicing or why. - Allison
The city of Fedora houses a metal building containing crystal globes in every room, each globe exhibiting unique possible forms of the city. These crystals represent the visions of the architects who created this metropolis. Some fragments are shown in the preliminary models and drawings, while most still remain housed in the mind, never to be released. The most imperative aspect of the aspiring architect is his or her visions. These visualizations are reflected in the city and are continually changing as long as it is in existence. Each structure is a sum of all the steps taken to create it, from the very first sketches on paper, to the finishing touches. Infinite possibilities had been unlocked as progressions were made; yet only one instance is realized. Perhaps the most important aspect of the city is not the vision of the architect, but the effect this vision has on the soul. In Fedora, every inhabitant reflects upon the city most appealing to his or her desires and in turn, exchanges occur between spirit and environment. Each mind harbours a distinctive perception of the city yet all but one possibility is ultimately conceived. - Ionna
A man sees a vision of what Fedora can be, creates a structure for that vision and expects it to function perfectly. However, he does not realize that a multitude of similar architects with different visions have created structures to suit their own cities’ desires. That is what the Fedora of today has become – a metropolis of different dreams. In the centre of the city is the museum. Each room in the building holds a globe that houses the vision of alternate forms Fedora could have taken. In each globe is one familiar structure that one can find in the existing Fedora. Perhaps the Fedora that we see in each globe is the vision of that building’s architect; this version of Fedora is the structure’s origin.
Thus, is the Fedora we see today a mesh of these structures that were stolen from their homes? Were these buildings robbed from the original dream that they were meant to settle in?
Or rather, is this the true destiny of each building? The structures are meant to meet new buildings from different visions, worlds and contexts. But for what purpose?
For fragments to become whole. – Thompson
A tourist and a citizen of Phyllis meet in an empty street. The tourist turns to the citizens and says:
“You must love living here.”
The citizen surprised by the tourist’s comment asks:
“Why?”
“Well, it’s beautiful and there is so much to see. Just yesterday I stood in the dome of the astronomy tower. The day before that I gazed into the mining pits on the outskirts of town. Even this street is lined with magnificent columns and arches.”
The citizen looked around “I’ve never been to the tower. The pits smell so I don’t go there, and the arches, well, I didn’t notice”
“What! Why? If I lived here I would marvel at every decoration, walk down every street, and visit every building. Why you hardly know your own city.“
The citizen shrugged “This is just my route to work.”
At that the citizen walked away; he turned the corner, hopped over a hedge, avoided a pothole, glanced into the window of a house that once belonged to a beautiful women, and arrived at his office. “Who says I don’t know this city?” he thought and he entered the building.
- Jennifer
Zaira is the city of memories. It does not exist through the buildings that engulf the sky. No, Zaira lives through the voids; the relationships and stories that breathe amid the brick, stone and metal. If what shapes a city were a series of randomly placed structures; a mere insignificant arrangement of walls, towers, domes, arches, ceiling and roofs, then there world be no macular qualities to set cities apart. They tell you nothing. The buildings within a city merely provide the form; a body without a soul. It is the relationship that co-exists in, around and between them that gives it life. Why would there be any reason for exploration if the only distinguishing quality of a city were simply what it was built of? All would be the same. Ask yourself this: it may be the structures that make it beautiful, but it is not the tales written within the streets that make it memorable? To truly discover a city one must search within the voids, contained between the heavy lines, explore its memory and create one’s own. Fragments make a building; the stories within the void make the city. – Camille
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PROGRAMS (Original posted descriptions – Feb 28)
Audio Canal
“Audio” refers to the sound of the city, referring to the noise and the murmur its buildings. “Canal” refers to a tubular passage or cavity, a connection between bodies, a place that allows fluidity. “Audio Canal” is the road of our pilgrimage. It connects the main buildings and offers a mean of transportation for the city. The canal collects sounds and like our ears interprets them in different ways. – Andrea
Like the wall, the “audio canal” also serves a pathway through our pilgrimage idea. Sounds are like emotion – they evidently exist, but their meaning could be vague. The idea is to reflect the emotion of people passing, after my wall absorbs the sorrow part. The canal could also mean a large collector or reservoir. Our programs have similar structural and functional capabilities. - Don
Sound changes as it progresses, like the emotions of those involved in the pilgrimage. The Audio Canal not only connects the pilgrimage, but it connects everyone involved – a procession of sound waves, our troubles slowly decreasing over the distance that is travelled. The invisible relationship brings together the emotions of the city– the past murmuring in the trembling air moving forward into the present. - Camille
Dump Yard
Although many interpretations came to mind when I thought of a dump yard, I decided on the idea that a dump yard is a place where citizens can go and donate (or “dump”) their unwanted belongings so that others can take them (one man’s trash is another’s treasure) because people giving away their objects and memories relates to Zora and the earth forgetting her. – Julien
Excess is relieved from the body. After cleansing occurs, one is able to live uninhibited and obtain another’s possessions as an exchange of trash and treasure. This is manifested in the form of a marketplace. Citizens congregate and sift through waste. It is highly accessible, with numerous connections. It is a business and efficiently accommodates for the masses. Waste will be organized by function. – Ionna
Since Wine cellar and Dump Yard are in the same city, it would be easy to find connection between them. Dump Yard would be a place that people will be dump somehow or it would be a place that people dump something else. In both cases it’s because someone dumps or something dumps, they need to go to Wine cellar and forget their bad memories. - Pegah
Embassy of Catharsis
Within a city of blind inhabitants- citizens who see nothing and tourists who merely look at everything- stands the Embassy of Catharsis. It is a building that is not meant to be “seen” but to be experienced. The inside reflects a journey of emotional relief. The outside serves to disrupt the inhabitant’s routine, to induce an emotional response, and to prepare for emotional cleansing. – Jennifer
People often go about their lives putting off and hiding what troubles them. At some point all negativity, built of fear and pain, must come to the surface. At the Embassy of Catharsis you are forced to face this fear and pain directly. The release leads to a relief and renewal. This is a building that you cannot just enter; you take part in it. – Allison
Like that of secrets, the Embassy of Catharsis has taken the ideas of various natures and placed them side by side. Catharsis explores the process of emotions. A purging through the empirical senses comes to terms with that of the human being’s feelings. The embassy contains the whole, providing space, time and atmosphere for the procedure to run smoothly. The building unveils the experience. - Kat
Embassy of Secrets
The Embassy of Secrets takes two unrelated ideas, and merges them as one. An embassy makes reference to offices for a body of particular persons. As function goes, an embassy has a mission. Secrets are of a non-evident nature, requesting that effort be an element to their disclosure. An Embassy of Secrets pertains entirely to both notions, in both function and in state. – Kat
Embassy of Secret would be a place that people scare to go there. People won’t want to tell their secret to the embassy. That’s why embassy used the wine cellar to get people drunk and find out about their secret. On the other hand people know about the trick that embassy used, so they pretend they drunk, but they really don’t. - Pegah
A secret, whether in the mind or a whisper, is always hidden. So, is the Embassy of Secrets, which is concealed within the city. There is a mystical quality to the Embassy, which inspires the sharing of secrets. Like the secrets muttered within the Embassy, worries dissolve into air. As people leave all their secrets behind, the secret of the Embassy is also forgotten. – Jennifer
Hugging House
The “Hugging House” program will be in the end of our pilgrimage building path. The hugging house will be physically embracing my wall path. Her comforting structure could be the contrast to my disturbing wall. The hugging house program will be the balance after the traveler crosses all my walls that are spread throughout. Our programs both show intense emotions expressed through structure. - Don
After dissecting the two words, and finding out that a hug could mean closeness or embrace/intimacy/compassion, towards someone or something, the hugging house is a shelter or a structure created that shows purity, calmness, and serenity. Our pilgrimage, does not seem to consist of the happiest of programs, however Emotions such as love, affection and compassion are evoked through the hugging house. – Nilakshi
The most distinctive quality about the Hugging house is the form. Both the negative and positive spaces reflect the shape of an embrace. It represents the moment preceding or following a hug. In this moment the huggers experience the most enjoyment. Either they are over come with positive emotions that drive them toward the hug or they are left with memories of the hug. – Jennifer
Marco Frascari’s Tower
Architecture, appeals to all senses – an experience that begins in the body and brings one to higher levels of perception. Your nerves connect your senses, like the stories and memories within the void connect a city. This relationship is the spine of Marco Frascari’s Tower, one that is non-verbal but sensual, emotional. Looking forward, while remembering the past, it allows one to reach higher. – Camille
Marco Frascari’s tower reflects his personal ideologies about the five senses. The tower will have a strong emotional and sensual (senses) use to citizens and city visitors and this will be reflected in its physical appearance. The building will stimulate all senses. Since Marco also believes that buildings have stories to back them up, the history and narrative behind the tower will become important. – Julien
A building that arouses all your senses particularly taste. It allows the visitor to have a sensual experience of its surroundings. The structure could resemble the one of our nervous system because it’s the responsible of communicating (like the audio canal) our sensitive organs to our brain. The tower is the point where the pilgrim experiences an overwhelming rush of emotions and learns to appreciate the importance of emotions. – Andrea
Pool of Grandmother’s Tears
This is for those wishing to reflect upon the city’s past, while enjoying a physically rejuvenating wax bath. Once the user is finished, they feel renewed. Feelings are purged, and aches soothed. The interior of the space is open, because mourning for the city’s past is a public activity, while from the exterior appears hidden as it houses what is meant to be forgotten. – Ionna
She has lived past many generations and has seen Fedora transform. The change was slow, but incredulously beautiful. She has witnessed the births, the deaths and the dreams. The frozen pool, dedicated in her name, is a reminder for citizens to stop. Think about where you came from. Look at your reflection from the ice. Were you the same yesterday? Will you change tomorrow? – Thompson
Memory, is like looking through a pool of water, the tears of the city’s grandmother. We mourn for the city that was – physical, emotional – but in this time of sorrow we find great healing. The tears that stream from the city’s past collects and creates a beautiful story. Then there is the time of renewal – a time of calm, a time of rejuvenation. – Camille
Vapour Baths
A building hangs before your eyes. Your spirits lift to the high, apearently weightless place, glowing, inviting, drawing you foreward. A healing place for both body and soul. The warm vapors embrace you as you enter, and dancing light and water ammuse your eyes. The vapor kisses your skin, sinks into your pores; cleasing your body, it is easing your worries away in the wash. - Allison
This program, is meant to be place where a person cleanses themselves from depression, and self negativity. it is a spiritual; getaway which is placed before the hugging house in the path of our pilgrimage. The Vapor baths is a step closer to being happy and fulfilled in life. The body and mind is at rest at this place and positivity overpowers the body. – Nilakshi
The change from a water to vapour is a battle of equilibrium. The gas will not always stay a gas – it may want to condensate back to its origin. But heat rises, and the battle between vapour and liquid fight to find a balance. The Vapour Bath is a sauna created by tension. A scientific battle occurs in the most relaxing space in Fedora. – Thompson
Wall of Sorrows
“Wall of Sorrows” can be interpreted as either a wall made of sorrows, or a wall made for sorrows – or both. A wall can be a perimeter to surround something, A Protection from the outside, A divider of areas, A Blocker, A Plane for advertising. Sorrowful architecture could be Direct – (with sad faces/sculptures) or Indirect – old, worn, bent down form. – Don
This program comes before The hugging house, it can be either a wall made of sorrows or made for sorrows. A wall being a perimeter, will be embraced by, or being close to the hugging house. This connection shows transition of the two contrasting emotions; it shows change from being sorrowful, to being liberated from the negative emotions one feels, within the hugging house. – Nilakshi
The wall of sorrows creates a starting point for the pilgrimage and it’s a welcome statement for the pilgrims that approach the city. It could extend along the path of the pilgrimage (like the audio canal) as a reminding of the past sorrows left behind. It could also be a memorial wall. As the first step of the pilgrimage the wall represents an obstacle that has to be overcome. – Andrea
Water Room
It is said that the container controls the shape of the liquid. However, that is not the case with the Water Room. Found underground, it is a space where walls are shaped by the erosion of the sea hitting the Earth. Possibilities are born and dreaming is encouraged. Various creative minds come to the water room to draw muses and inspirations from life’s ocean. – Thompson
On any journey, there comes a point where the traveller questions whether to go on, and potentially change forever, or turn back and be content with what he knows. For our pilgrimage, this point is the water room. A deeply spiritual place, an example of the power and energy of water, it faces off science against religion, and begins the psychological part of the journey. – Allison
Syntheses of all kinds occur here, emotion with purpose, and spirit with the body. It powers the city using the different states of water, and thus providing spiritual and physical energy to the inhabitants. This is where individuals become re-energized by the sounds heard from the water undergoing state changes and are allowed to meditate in a nearby room to experience the auditory effects. - Ionna
Wine Cellar
Based on my city which is Zora, Wine Cellar would be a place that people want to forget all of their bad memories. It wouldn’t be a place that people just got drunk. It would all depends to the emotional feeling that people have when they are walking to the wine cellar. To keep or delete their memories people decided what to do. – Pegah
The Wine Cellar is not only a storage area for wine, it is also the city’s wine bar, where citizens go, not only to drink wine and get drunk but specifically to forget their memories. It is a depressing environment, where people are not joyous and rowdy, but drink a specially designed wine, trying to erase their memories and sorrows from their disturbed minds. – Julien
A Wine Cellar is common to all who hold knowledge of such product. Wine is a bitter-sweet liquid delicacy, consumed by the mouth, and enjoyed through the senses of the body. While placed within correct conditions, may it be proper temperature provided by underground chambers (known as cellar), it will provide the corresponding conditions to he or she who wishes it upon oneself. – Kat
