Video: Melting house in Paris
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
A few years ago, guests and residents of Paris, finding themselves on Avenue George V, found themselves in a very difficult situation: before their eyes appeared a house, the appearance of which did not fit into any usual framework. Uneven walls, blurry windows, indistinct shapes … It feels like the house is slowly melting in the sun! Is this the last word in modern architecture or just a mirage? However, curious viewers did not have to puzzle for a long time: to find out the answer, it was enough just to get closer to the building.
The solution to such a strange phenomenon made those who sincerely believed in experimental architecture breathe a sigh of disappointment, and elicited a sigh of relief from those who considered it a mirage. Everything turned out to be extremely simple: the building needed restoration, but instead of contemplating the scaffolding, passers-by decided to offer an original creative solution. For this, photographer Pierre Delavie took pictures of the building in its original form, and then the images were deformed using a computer program and printed on huge canvases that completely covered the facade of the house. For greater realism, the help of a sculptor was required: Frédéric Beaudoin glued foam cornices over the image, and it became very difficult to distinguish reality from drawing, especially from a distance.
The artistic technique used to create the facade of the building is a trompe l'oeil. Not so long ago, we mentioned this interesting form of illusion, having considered it on the example of painting. Juan Medina … And in the case of a house in the French capital, the mixing of real perspectives and artistic distortions led to the fact that the visible boundaries between the real building and the drawing were, if not completely erased, then very blurred.
Unfortunately, the restoration of the house has already been completed, which means that now you can see the “melting house” only in photographs. But there are still so many buildings in the world in need of renovation - who knows what artists and designers will come up with next?
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