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The Brunswick’s design, approached with permeability of an open-ended urban landscape, opposed to having one large concrete block has suggested a blurring of boundaries, yet a spatial hierarchy remains. The A-Frame structure, looms over in scale, framing an isolated passer. In Andor this A-Frame remains unchanged. Although it is not the first shot of the Brunswick within the montage, it is the most recognisable frame, where Syril is seen crossing the bridge within the atrium. (Fig.7)

The movement of Syril across the space with the daunting presence of the A-Frame reflects the relation between the human scale and the megastructure of the Brunswick. This further suggests that the form of the Brunswick is recognised not through its characteristics but that its certainspatialrelationsbetweenthese elementsaremaintainedwithinAndor.14

Additionally, the A-Frame is a recognisable structure which lends itself towards principles of Futurism. This spatial relation has remained unchanged within Andor, feeding into the monumentality of the building, whilst accommodating a stillness found within liminal spaces of modern architecture and balances the slight changes through VFX mass sampling, as an abstraction of Futurist architecture.

It is inevitable to distinguish the Brunswick’s Brutalist form as an alienation. However, the Brunswick adopted a reoccurrence of recognition, where one identifies what is seen as what has already been or could be seen in reality. 15 Just as Reyner Banham described the Brunswick’s A-Frame structures to be inspired by Sant Elia’s futuristic city of La Città Nuova (1914), the Brunswick’s A-Frame structure is now associated within a futuristic city in the Star Wars universe.