Unit 4 – Amazing Stories From The City

Nacho Martin & Manuel Collado

In Latin America, Magical Realism, in literature, was a way to dream a possible reality, beyond the stagnation of economic and political realities. The architectural practice was not alien to it.

Some projects by Archigram, Superstudio and OMA, supported through fiction, comics and pop culture have now become architectural paradigms. In this unit, students are invited to imagine a new London through making a comic. By using references that go beyond architecture such as sci-fi books, comics and films or POP music, graffiti and cartoons, students write scripts and design scenarios for new urban situations.

Unit 4 Group Photo

Unit 4 Brief – Amazing Stories from the City


Unit 4 begins work on their comic storyboards


Slime Monsters in the City


Speech bubbles


Dr Yellow Trace PhD storyboard


Working on the underwater monsters


Alex sketches over test images


Comic storybook pages come together on various screens


Photographing funny t-shirts


Explosive sounds in comic form


Little guy in Eirini’s sketchbook


Pop-up precedent


Slime Monsters at sea


Waterworld explosions


The book begins to come together


Comic annotations


Colourful spreads


Phyo putting together the final spreads


Can and Lauren working on their comic


Testing different speech bubbles


Robotic universe


Storyboards


Team Gaiatopia working away on their comic


funny t-shirts


Re-using AA publications


Dr. Yellowtrace PhD lets out an evil laugh


Jasmine paints detail into some of Gaiatopia’s visuals


More pop-up precedents


Can and Lauren at work


The final product – Amazing Stories from the City complete with recycled and reappropriated gold podium, stand and disco paraphenalia! A blinding success!

Spreads from the final book:

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