B&TB+UTOPIA ARKITEKTER: Madrid Connection

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B&TB+UTOPIA ARKITEKTER: Madrid Connection
When some studio´s obsessive-compulsive attention to detail challenges you, then you know that is a badass studio.
This is the case of our nice friends of Utopia Arkitekter.
After meeting them in Madrid recently and enjoying together La Buena Vida Española we realized this week that they are the winners of Värmdö municipality’s competition for a service housing project in Gustavsberg, just south of Stockholm.
Champagne for everyone.

Façades

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The facades of individuals portrayed through those of architecture.

Facades hide flaws, failings and – ultimately – reality. In the past decade, the structures surrounding us have been cosmetically overhauled; covering the deeper, economic faults.

Can parallels be found between these architectural fronts and the fronts put up by a community?

The visuals and its narration attempt to demonstrate that it doesn’t matter; aesthetics trumps all.

“What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty. “– Alain de Botton

By Ryan Wai Kin LAM
Music with Teresa CP TAN
Narration written and voiced by Hana SCHONEGGER
Typography and motion graphics by Manuel A FERNANDEZ

Song :
soundcloud.com/waikin182/facades

Making Of :
artstation.com/artwork/babWkG