Background

Background

Parts of the sum

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"We don't normally look at light. We are generally looking at something the light reveals.. [...] You could be not only be looking at a painting or a work of art but you are actually looking at yourself perceiving. This world that we have around us is not a world that we receive but more a world
Y4 Portfolio + Induction Terminal drawing packa
 Mid section of the Terminal is where the transformation of the visitors' begins. Once the campers made their way through check-in they are divided by gender and directed to changing rooms. There, cathedral-like lockers provide depository for the 'contemporary' attire before one showers and returns
Tardis- the gateway to VanderLand's 1950s reality marks physical and visual milestone along the Visitors' transitional journey. Having just emerged from Customs' control, purified from fashions of 'today' and with their Luggage In Advance kit in hand, the Campers can take-in offshore view of their
New international airport terminal built entirely on stilts to preserve precious an limited Maldivian land. http://www.ida-hk.com/architechture_details.php?id=31
// preliminary master plan //
// from Levittown to van der Island_house types // The lace of streets demarcating grid will be interwoven by variety of buildings. They will be organized so as to promote shoreline views and reinforce holiday atmosphere by continuous visual remainder of the 'sand & spade' idyll. Waterfront is
// van der Island transport infrastructure // A small selection of electric cars will zip around the grid of streets, chauffeuring  the Escapists from the Exchange hub (immigration and departure terminal) to their accommodation location. The automobiles will be operated by on-board robots or autopilot
In keeping with the project's driving force, the notion of nostalgia for the mid-century ecstatic lifestyle amid rise of consumerism, this unique holiday camp takes its inspiration from the American '50s. All that the baby boomers longed for and desired, but which was unobtainable in the UK will
//summary of inspiration & precedents// for the Archipelago of Dreams
//chronogramme// unfolding the establishing shot in 2D, mapping where; how; what; when & the ambiance of the project
//Scars from the past// //now// These, whose memories we adopted as our own nostalgic notions: (Copyright "The Guardian") ..and a fabric upon which to realize the British Hamptons: industrial beach cabana //post scarcity// Post scarcity intervention proposes returning the once
//Escapism// "The good old times" flashback