[Georgia Tech | Design + Research I | Professor: Michael Gamble]
This studio was guided by an exploration of three revolutionary architects: Etienne-Louis Boullée, Claude Nicolas Ledoux, and Jean-Jacques Lequeu. The goal was to initiate an architectural typology and create an installation that lived within their famous architectural drawings.
Boulee’s drawing of an architectural profile with a human face was the spark that dictated my project’s ambition of creating a house focusing on the inherent emotional and personable connections we create. The house as an architectural typology offers the most valuable connection to the soul and one’s experiences. Yet, memory in itself is subjective. There is no way to design broadly for memory.
Therefore, I chose to focus on one man’s story, but rather than exploring a home for memory, i chose to explore a home being lost to it. In order to establish a strong connection and understanding of the narrative, I used the medium of film to enhance the project’s storytelling components. The vast, wandering mountains of a small town in North Carolina became the set piece for this story.
This short film, “A Home Off Alarka Road”, and the auditoriums built are the installations inside of the drawings of Boullee and Ledoux. A representation of how A.I. Programs and film can become yet another storytelling tool in the architectural world.
Left: Parti Collage - Boullee Face Profile
Right: Fragment House Plan
Top: Movie Location Map - North Carolina
Bottom: "Location Scouting" - Bryson City Photographs
Left: Movie Poster - Midjourney
Right: AI Logic Diagram
Short-Film Stills
Perspective - Edited Boullee Drawing - Movie Premiere in Paris
Perspectives - Interior Theater Movie Premiere
Left: Plan Drawing - Boullee Theater Hall, Paris
Middle: Site Plans - Paris & Berlin Premieres
Right: Plan Drawing - Ledoux Theater Hall, Berlin