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The City of the Captive Globe (2022)
Final Project
Project created for ARCH4609 Mixed Realities, B.Arch Program at Cornell University
This project is a playful reinterpretation of The City of the Captive Globe Project (1972) by Rem Koolhaas and Madelon Vriesendorp, shown through a comedic film. The original project focuses on New York City’s urban fabric and its relentless uniform grid, representing it through “fantastic city-within-a-city” blocks. My project finds new meaning in their city blocks, and theorizes its exaggerated foundations as protective measures against climate change. I’ve reimagined this architecture as an adaptive city, so that if a disastrous event ever did threaten to hold this world captive, its residents would be able to weather the storm.
Final Project: Drawings and Behind the Scenes
Exercise 1a: The Full Picture
In order to come to a better understanding of the project’s form, I created a replica using 3D modeling software Rhino 7, then rendered out an axonometric image with the same perspective of the original photo.
Original 2D Image
3D Digital Model
Exercise 1b: Expanding Worlds
After creating the digital model and coming to an understanding about the language of these city blocks, I designed and inserted a few of my own. Below are photographs of some of my physical models, made out of chipboard and 3D filament, and photoshopped back into the digital model.
