All Illusions!

All Illusions!

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Technology hides mechanism behind.

Everything exposed is an illusion.

Southern California Insitute of Architecture 960 E 3rd Street Los Angeles, CA 90013 Name: Yanchen Wu Thesis Advisor: Kristy Balliet 2

Howvever, what is hidden is what really matters.

ALL ILLUSIONS!

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CONT E N T S STATEMENT

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HIDE Illusions In Illustration Real-Life Illusions

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EXPOSE Architecture

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Films

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HIDE vs. EXPOSE

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STATEMENT

When technology and architecture developed, people tend to do same thing as magicians-they hide things behind. Infrastructures and mechanisms are hidden invisibly, however that is the part most complicate and condensed most intelligence inside.

Instead of hide, expose the mechanism behind is more important. What to expose should be one more step than only put infrastructures out-expose the mechanism, the history, the story, the system, the technology and everything related. Everything makes a wall to be a wall, which is complicate enough to even reinvent a new city.

The rule of optical illusions, which allows me to expose system behind and architecturalize those mechanisms and stories. The world behind would be a huge and multi-layered city.

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HIDE

Illusions in illustration

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Waterfall. M.C. Escher October 1961, Lithograph.

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The columns at the BACKGROUND come to the FOREGROUND.

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RETHINK ABOUT

The drawing could be decomposed into seperate pieces, when placed at right scale and depth, they look same at the view point.

As a result, everything we see could be fake.

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Modeled impossible triangle

When this 2D & 3D illusion interact with people, what can it bring about?

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Modeled impossible stairs

People are able to walk at an ifinite looping stair at this illusion moment.

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When you stare into those illusions,

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it is easy to GET LOST.

Monument Valley. USTWO Mobile Games

Optical illusions in axonometric is always a perfect way to build a maze

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HIDE

Real-life illusions

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When objects are lined up with a specific angle, a new context emerge.

Mirror illusion

Connecticut Hartford

F&G illusion

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pillars or women?

California Science Center

2-side illusion

TWO-FACED TYPE Lex Wilson

Color illusion

Build a Shed on a Weekend Felice Varini

Depth illusion

Bike rack in Italy

Pattern illusion

Psychedelic room installations Peter Kogler

Tourists in front of Tower of Pisa

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When optical illusion plus video edition,

Tricky point 1: The scene changed from a 2D painting to a 3D hole on the wall at this keyframe.

He is a painting at wall first.

He jumps out when people away.

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things becomes even more REAL.

Tricky point 3: When he steps into the hole, a reverse process of point 1 happened.

He take a flower from another painting.

Tricky point 2: Same thing happened to this flowers painting.

He hand the flower to a girl and becomes a painting again

A video magic trick created by Zach King

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EXPOSE Architecture

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Expose.1

Pompidou Center Museum Renzo Piano

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Exposed Infrastructure

Pompidou Center Museum bring the infrastructure out to expose how this building work.

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Expose.2

Salk Intitute for biological Studies Louis Isadore Kahn

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Equal height Infrastructure level

When Infrastructure level and rooms are the same height, it mix the differency between them, which also exposes the space of infrastructure level.

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Expose.3

Pink Pipes Berlin

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Pipes unground Berlin

The pink pipes in Berlin carry ground water from the various building sites in the city to the River Spree and Other canals, which is expose the city infrastrure system out.

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Hide Walt Disney Concert Hall Frank Gehry

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Walt Disney Concert Hall Lighting Show

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Walt Disney Concert Hall Structure System

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EXPOSE Film

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Movies have mutiple ways of

visualization.

Poster of INSIDE OUT

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Visualized memories

Family Island

Goofball Island

School Island

Boyban Island

Hockey Island

Friendship Island

Social Networking Tragic Vampire RoIsland mance Island

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Most of the visualization in movies is

based on the characteristic.

Poster of RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET

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Architecturalized applications

Architecturalized movie companies

Architecturalized Google

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HIDE vs. EXPOSE

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Room

Building Infrastructure

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Architecture

Transfered scale: small

(Walt Disney Concert Hall) (Walt Disney Concert Hall Construction)

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City

World

Transfered scale: large

Mechanism

Microworld

Expose

(Molecule and atom world)

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Frank Gehry Stone? Metal?

Theater Steel structure Curval shape Contemparory art

(Story Behind Walt Disney Concert Hall)

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Hide

A regular room have muti-layered world behind, including the story the history material mechanisms . . . . which could be exposed.

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Expose

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Hide

Expose level 2

Expose level 1

Expose level 3

Expose level 4

Expose level 5

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