G5 / THE FACE'ADD / ARMOOGUM K. Jeya, RAMAKISTIN Claire, TECHER Marine

1/ For this studio work , we had to watch the film BRAZIL. This film it’s a caricature and distopia of the society and there were many themes that were evocated. 

So after that , based on the film, everyone had to choose a concept  on a contemporary subject.

1/ Marine : the facade architecture

2/ Jeya : the transformation of the aesthetics

3/ Claire : the appearance of the building

    First, my concept is the facade architecture. Indeed, I wanted to represent an ugly and old building which has been renovated. But the new facade is detached to the existing building so it's only to hides the truth. 

And if we look also the other buildings,, they have also a new beautiful facade but the heart is still ugly. However, it shows that just a facade can change the idea that we have about a building without know it. 

Finally, after the construction of the facade I wanted to show that the people who live in can apropriate them the new face and create a  hybride space more confortable and useful for live. 

First of all, at some part of the movie we saw for example the mother of the main character with her doctor trying to modify her face; it was this notion of beauty transformation that I wanted to explore for my concept and how it can also have an impact in the field of architecture.

So in my comic I chose to represent a woman pressured by the society and social media to transform herself  to make her more appealing and beautiful. 

But in this society things move fast, beauty standards also change quite rapidly and drastically so she is  always transforming herself ;  like putting a new  façade on her after every surgery, and as she is constantly transforming herself for the eyes of people, she is also trying to modify her home every time :  relentlessly trying to achieve and having the perfect house. 

The '' ideal '' home : so she is consistently trying every latest / trendy architecture and so on, to realise finally that she is trapped in this vicious circle.

For my concept, i focused on a detail of the film where we see the dishes served at the table: behind the beautiful photos of the dishes , « bouillie » ( in french ) is served So for my cartoon I decided to show that the appearance, the facade don’t always be reality and sometimes a concept is just limited to the visual . The exterior doesn’t represent the interior.

So we mixed our 3 concepts and we obtained a concept of a surgery of a facade architecture.

And then we translated it in a model with a flexible facade which changes the  way of living .

Finally, we can take the example of the nose surgery : we have still the skeleton underneath and then we can also see the new appearance on top. 

3 / The video

We wanted to explain in a video the transformation of the building with a new facade that changes the life of the characters.

Watch and enjoy the video !

https://youtu.be/GBZI7a2d4rc