30.10.13

Alien Architecture

Alien architecture! What do you know about it? Nothing really. Since we've never seen aliens, or their architecture, we don't really know what to expect their buildings to look like. That's why I had quite a bit of difficulty with this project, because we had to actually use our imaginations. Read more after the break!

For this assignment, we had to create 5 of what we considered to be structures that may be created by aliens. To start, we had to come up with ideas. I didn't really know what to do, so I started with basic physics. I reckon that if an alien lives on a planet, then the planet probably has gravity. Thus, the buildings must probably be built in a way that complies with the physics of such a planet. . . .  I soon realized that this was an incredibly limiting factor, and quickly scrapped it. That's why some of my buildings look bonkers.

Utilizing my new found lack of physics, I decided to go berserk; one building is falling over but still standing, one is floating in the sky and looks completely ugly, in that it's a friggin' blob, one is balancing on a tiny point,  and the other two are simple little things that could probably work. The falling building looking one's actually animated, and ripples a bit. You can sort of tell near the end of the video.