These words were the catch line for one of the early TV series, The Twilight Zone. Which despite the crude sets and special effects, engages us in alternate realities and provocative possibilities.
Gene Roddenberry welcomed us…. “You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond another dimension; A dimension of Sound, A dimension of Sight, A dimension of Mind, You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas.”
Imagine if you will, a world in which one can create a digital reconstruciton of an iconic building, a pioneering housing tract.
This feat of imagination was originally designed by Albert Frey using what now seems rudimentary architectural tools of paper and pencil,
Created an innovative housing prototype, remarkable for it’s simplicity and effective use of materials.
photographic record, restored houses within the tract.
The Twilight Zone had anticipated the computer age….
My desktop in the Architectural Drafting Program Vectorworks: In the process of recreating one of the Bel Vista prototype houses.
The drawing as a 3d wireframe
2D view of the desktop
Rendered images on the desktop - with photorealistic representation of the building
Creating the housing tract: site model, paving, buildings… in wireframe
the tract as a 2d image
Street elevation - indicating the variety achieved by flipping, rotating and modifying the setbacks of a single plan
rendered image of the street scape
comparison of the historic photograph and the computer model
Digital Reconstruction of the Albert Frey designed Bel Vista Tract, Palm Springs. #Albert Frey, #Bel Vista, #Palm Springs, #William LaVoie Architect
