Hiden City 3: Marozia
Frame vs. Field
OVERVIEW
This module will introduce to perspective, a technique of representation first theorized in renaissance Italy and further developed as a tool in cinema. We will see how this differs from a less ‘subjective’ and more ‘open’ mapping of movements and figures via notation.
It required to harness the software skills they learned from previous modules to perform a story that get randomly through perspective and notations. The short story cams from the novel invisible cities by Italo Calvino, which vivid tale of Marco polo. The University of Melbourne's old quad has been used as the real-world base for the notations. By using Rhino, illustrator, and photoshop to build the model and textures and so on to present the world reality. Finally using symbols in the isometric view to represent Marco polo’s journey in the city from their supplied passage.
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Project Info
YEAR
Research
DURATION
3 WEEK
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BACKGROUND
About the Story
STORY
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REFERENCE IMAGE
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OLD QUAD ISOMETRIC
The symbols of content been used in clearly shows the story in this world. Isometric drawing used different line weights to distinguish the importance of elements. In my design, the symbols have been kept simple in order to recognizable to the reader. Different kinds of grey colour distinguish the rat, people and debatable crowd. The movement symbols show the way marco polo visit. From the higher level to the lower one, his mood has changed with the environment change. The story stated that there are two worlds which the swallow one is like a dream world than the rat one, but it appears only sometimes. So the design of the swallow’s world looks like a “fake world”. It has much lighter colour compared to the rat one. There is like a world which combines the paradise and hell.
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CITIES
Perspective 01
(Marco’s perspective)
The choosenview from this angle according to it has highest roof and brightest space which can be easily linked to my “paradise world”. The people in this city are not able to see the world of the other one
The people on the front in deeper colours are from the "Rat's world". They seem like guide the way to show marco polo their ‘fake city'. The people in this city are noble and kingly which has a big contrast to the darker people.
Perspective 02
(Polo’s perspective)
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Space here is the lowest one. It has several stairs to the higher level. So i imagine that the people control their behaviour as they step up. It is like a process to purify their hearts.
This world is messy, dirty with lots loot and fighting. I use a dark colour to present the feeling of visual effect. Also, the mud and rats on the ground present the feeling as well.
