Renaissance: the virtual 3D architecture of Paris in year 2054
BLDGBLOG shares some comments on the virtual architecture of Paris in year 2054 seen in the movie Renaissance by Christian Volckman.
concept drawing for the production design of the Virtual Paris in 2054 for the 3D CGI film Renaissance.
They are not particularly enthusiastic about the acting and the characters but they have a nice description of a possible future of Paris:
The city’s streets have been replaced with bulletproof glass, for instance, so action on the underground Metro platforms can be seen from above – and vice versa. Weird little houses rise and fall on hydraulic platforms; a geneticist’s home, on the mansard-roofed top floor of a riverside flat, contains a whole indoor forest; the city itself has become a massively cross-buttressed machine of arches, superhighways, and elevated trains. There are tunnels, archives, and holographic surveillance screens – and lots of iron, glass, and brick. The Seine has been concretized into a kind of industrial mega-canal.
Read the entire post at: Glass avenues of Paris 2054
