Projects from Christopher Bryant
name
Christopher Bryant (chrisnb20)
country
united kingdom
university
University College London
department
Architecture
university address
Gower Street
WC1E 6BT London
university country
united kingdom
url
id
0001313
title
A house of cards- A contemporary tower of Babel
professor(s)
Peter Szczepaniak, John Puttick
rank
70
tags
year of making
2008
uploaded
2009-03-03 13:03:00
This project is a living monument to western capitalism. It is an interpretation of capitalism manifested into a theoretically inhabitable tower, presented as a parable much like the original Babel
The playing card is used as the one building block to create this city. The obsession of the card, the grand yet flawed nature of the house of cards, and the fractal system are all parallels that can be drawn with a western economic system. The card forms the element for a fractal modular architecture. A modular architecture that actively encourages both curves and immense detail while maintaining the properties of repetition and standardisation that allows it to flourish
This is a grand, immensely dense and ornate architecture. It is essentially a cathedral to man.
