work in progress

 City - physical attributes*             =             Canary Wharf

This model is a response to the saturation of the hyperreal and the illusion.  It is also a response to canary wharf, presented as an illusion in context of fitting into its 'architecture'.   The model is a study looking at Canary Wharfs facades, keeping the same logic as the buildings that surround it; that is transparency and the standardized grid.  The model keeps the standardized grid, however looses the physical sense of transparency, replacing it with a phenomenal transparency.

This 'tricks' the mind into miss reading the facade as different, however upon closer reading the transparency can be understood.

The illusion continues  internally in response to the external facade; that is the external attributes become a rigid formal grid, linear.  The external however, becomes an inversion of this logic; fluid, organic, grid, with the physical sense of transparency returning.