REBUILDING
MACONDO
INDIVIDUALLY
Jingjing Fang
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish: Cien años de soledad, American Spanish: is a 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founded the (fictitious) town of Macondo.
I used the classic scenes and character relationships from the novel to design buildings and urban areas that are logical to the plot and reading experience.
2021 Graduation design
tutored by Chunni Zhou
Novel transfer Architecture design
CHARACTER RELATIONS CORRESPOND TO ARCHITECTURAL RELATIONS
The character relationships extracted from the book correspond to the architectural relationships.
9 CHARACTERS
Surrounding the first eldest mother, Ursula, are eight important characters, husbands, children and grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Designing architectural images for them.
URSULA
The logic of the generation of Ursula architecture is more complex. After first extracting the characters' relations, the geometric form cutting is done according to their mutual survival in each other's life length.
