For this project I had to choose a city from the invisible cities text by Italo Calvino. I chose the city Diomira. I then had to construct a house by using some ideas expressed in the text along with the concepts that were used in the Mondrian model that was constructed from a previous project. I constructed a total of four study models, mainly focusing on the obvious ideas that were expressed in the text and using the sections from my Mondrian.

 

  For my final model, I didn't make the ideas from the text so literal. I studied the text and used color in order to demonstrate the ideas from the text. The model of my house was constructed to show the key concepts of Mondrian through the measurements, while the color and flow of the house represented the main ideas expressed in the text about the city Diomira. In the final model of the house, I used silver and gold paint to represent the riches that the people in the city of Diomira had. The gold stair cases lead you through the house and show you the glass tower that extends all the way through the house and onto the roof. Inside the glass tower is a garden, which is the main point throughout the house.

  As you travel through the house you are approached by golden staircases which lead you to the roof, an open garden connected to the glass tower. This represents how the people in Diomira, whom had everything, envied the market man who came into their town. The man was admired, because he was just a regular man who didn't have much to his name. The open garden in my house represents the market man, and the winding staircases throughout the house represent the people of Diomira wanting to be lead to nature; therefore representing their envy towards the market man.