12 dead cities 1-3

XIXI - the diluted city
It is hard to determine whether Xixi is on city of a collection of many cites. As one city, you can not find its whole picture, as the city has already broken down into many pieces, separating form each other and keep away from each other. However, as a collection of different cities, you can neither recognize the boundary of any city unit nor distinguish them form each other. Furthermore, none of these pieces is complete enough to be considered as a city but only a part of one. The death of Xixi, as a death of city, is because it is absolutely not a city from the beginning.

SIAN - the distaste city
In fact, few people has actually been to Sian, but hate this city as well as the people from it. Without certain reason, Sian just received such a wicked repute, which spread fast aboard. As a result, everyone believes that Sian is as disgusting as the hearsay sounds. Nobody aim to visit it, while its residences do not intend to go out either, resulting in the fact that the hearsay takes place of the real city, kills the city and robs its name as its own. It is possible that Sian has changed its name into another one which you might have heard in chance or even been to the city, the abnormal beautiful one. Nonetheless, you will by no means know that is Sian. As if you do, who will believe you else?

ZOMA - the destruction city
Seldom city can die hard like this, while the moment of its death are framed as the most shining second throughout a city’s life. This moment is remembered, which make the city live in people’s heart because of its death forever. However, Zoma is the lucky one, dead without any omen and absolutely disappeared in one night. This city became a legend, and its image in people’s mind become far more colorful than the reality. As a result, this imagination serves to amplify its beauty of destruction. If there is a destiny, this city would live for its death.

Da Tong Hua Lin Commercial Complex

All Drawings for Bartlett First Term

"Project 1"? :Two-skin Milk

Project 2: Representation Ecosystem by Ink

Meeting 1: Rebuild a Scean of Movie

Meeting 2: Research the China Town

Meeting 3: What's Boundary

Meeting 4: City Seed Grow into Humanist City and Rational City

Meeting 5: The Recurrence of Atlantis

Meeting 6: Two Mechines about Atlantis

Meeting 7: The Whole Story of Atlantis

Bartlett AD First Term Crits

As we saw everybody pin up the whole process of the project today, I put almost all the drawings of this term on the wall which fill the whole wall. There are 30 Pieces in total:)

Story of Atlantis

Structure of Society and City


Collapse of City and Spirit

Escape


Crowded City

Poseidon

Four Hierarchy

Morality Arms

Track Record of Collapse

Atlantis was a flourishing and crowded city as the transportation is highly developed. There were not only a lot of roads but also numerous canals. Carriages and boats were busily running around all the spaces of the city. Buildings were also in high density that you have seldom chance to look thought them to see the sky. In fact, Atlantis is not a single city but ten cities gathering together which managed by ten god. These cities all connected to each other with bridges very well, which make them like a net that floating on the sea. Also, there were two water pipes hidden in these bridges, one was hot stream and one was cold stream that made people in Atlantis had very convenient life. There was a great canal run thought the city. It transported all the crucial material for city life as well as people’s happiness and sadness; it was the acanthi of Atlantis that connect the ocean and the heart of the city.

In the middle of the ring was a palace surrounded with garden, flowers, streams and trees. While in the palace there was a huge temple, which honors the god of this land – Poseidon. On the top of the pillar spire in temple there was a huge gold statue of Poseidon. There were numerous symbols engraved on the pillars which meant the decree of god. Around this pillar there were 100 pillars with fairies riding a dolphin on the top. And all the other 10 cities in the ring have their own tower with the statue of their god. From a distance, the whole cities group was just like candles on the cake.

This city had three colors which were black, red and white. Not only all the buildings were made in these colors, but also people’s clothes. Color was a symbol of rank and profession. White was for the clergy, they had very high status that can release god’s mind to govern the city. Red was for workers who built the city and were manufacturing tools to maintain the running of the entire city smoothly. Black was for shepherd, hunters and farmers who produced base material for the city life and were the bottom of the city. Also, the city has another color, metal, which can reflect the surrounding color. This color was for warrior who took the metal spear and shield array around the city to guard it and attack other countries.

Just like other cities, Atlantis also had fatigue, anger, fantasies and desire, but everything here was done combine with a ceremony. They were seemed to be the most lofty civilization; nonetheless actually they do everything including sin as sacrifice rituals. Because they were the model of the world, so everything in the city is grand and good in appearance, including the churches, theaters, brothels and toilet.

This city was accompanied by two projections. The celestial one was composing with divine place, represent sublimity. The infernal one was composing with grimy places, represent sin.

But with the corruption and depravity of people’s spirit, this city began to reverse. The grimy underground was holding to the air. Meanwhile, the holy sky-projection began to sink. But people in the city did not know. They were still seeking fake virtue from the sky, keeping on tamping the sky with their ideality.

Finally, the top-heavy city lost his balance and overturn completely, just like a ship turn over in the sea. People in Atlantis did not know the truth. Instead, they thought the sky collapsed as well as the heaven’s gates opened. In the meanwhile, numerous large columns of water washed down which made the whole city flooded. As rivers left the riverbed and ocean flooded its banks, the city sunk in one day.

Because the city was totally turned over, the virtue side back to the sky, the grimy side returned to the ground, so Atlantis left a wonderful and sacred impression in people’s memory. It becomes a myth, spread by his refugees all around the world.

Small Installations for Atlantis

Poseidon

Flood

Transportation

Evil (old)

Evil

Angel

Mechanical Installation of Atlantis

Atlantis sunk in the bottom of the Atlantic


People escape from Atlantis


Mechanical Installation of City Balance


Mechanical Installation of Social Structure

Snowflake City

Put a city seed in ocean.


Different shape of snowflake
info from SnowCrystals.com


Generate different shape of snowflake in certain condition


City of Snowflake


Growing up (from black to white)


Central part and six minor parts


Perspective of the city


City seed in water will grow up into a city with H2O characteristics. Since I research about snowflake, I found that scientist now already can adjust the condition to make certain kinds of snowflake. In the future, this technology maybe highly develop to use in different field, including building the city. Maybe it can easily freeze the surrounding ocean to generate the new city land and make building by ocean water. As the shape of H20 molecule and snowflake is hexagon, the shape of the city should be hexagon,too.

UCLA Term 1 Exhibition