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This project was created by Mao Lei on uni.xyz, a platform for design professionals to showcase their work.

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"ARCHIMAL:BECOMING-ANIMAL" is a Cultural Architecture, Architecture, 3D Visualization, Conceptual Architecture project showcased on uni.xyz.

ARCHIMAL:BECOMING-ANIMAL

Our building is an unprecedented hybrid, where human and animal parts meet again, mix and assemble to form a giant beast. Nests, branches, fangs of wolves, spears and sticks of local Maasai people, feet of flamingos, bellies of hippopotamuses, manes of lions, fences, windmills, Platonic geometry... They interweave together and showing the fate of the world.

Comments (2)

Faith Okuma

Juror

5y ago

Although imaginative art imagery, would have held more weight as an architectural work if a serious, deep exploration of how animal structure, habits, environments or any thing about animals and their interaction/interface with human structure, habits, environment etc. might inform design. That would have been quite exceptional.

Richard Bennett

Juror

5y ago

Really liked the Deleuze and Guattari reference. Well thought through and researched.

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