Deotto Alessandra – ADVFX 2024-2027

For this project, we have to choose 3 different environments and adapt them to our new design.

Before starting to draw i decided to analize what the environments are trying to convey to the viewer in the original version in order to transfer them with other elements of design.

FIRST ENVIRONMENT: CASTLE FRANKESTEIN

• Encased in nature yet starkly opposed to it, it’s a massive structure carved into cliffs and stone.
• Built to be seen from far away, the silhouette dominates the landscape like a warning.
• Monumental scale and vertical construction turn the environment into a statement of ambition.
• The castle amplifies Dr. Frankestein’s obsession rather than containing it.
• Chaotic layers of towers, staircases and machinery reject balance and harmony.
• Verticality and instability mirror the doctor’s escalating loss of control.
• The castle functions as an architectural act of defiance and hubris towards God.

SECOND ENVIRONMENT: THE HERMIT’S HUT

• An intimate, small-scale space that creates a sense of temporary safety rather than permanence.
• it is designed to foster human connection, emphasize closeness, warmth, shared presence.
• it represents a clear rupture with hubris, rejecting ambition, dominance and control.
• it is built in harmony with nature rather than in defiance of it.
• nothing is symmetrical , irregular forms and handmade construction reinforce humility and vulnerability.

THIRD ENVIRONMENT: PRETOTIUS’ LAB.

• Small-scale interior space.
• Feels domestic rather than industrial.
• Enclosed and contained and with limited openness.
• Fuctions as a space of control and intellectual dominance.
• absence of massive chaotic machinery.
• emphasises control over nature, not a struggle or wrestling with it.