Alternate Realities Surreal Architecture

Employing 3D software, Rafman sculpts "skin"-in-cluding paintings by Bruce Nauman, Francis Picabia, Robert Delaunay, Mark Rothko,-onto virtual busts. In these busts actual art history meets possible futures. Together, the series forms a conceptual literature of alternative realities, totally alien, and yet, somehow familiar.

Jon Rafman

Victor Enrich, who likes to bend reality by turning Architecture into surreal playgrounds by forming buildings that, while fiction, are sometimes reminiscent of Frank Gehry‘s iconic, if controversial, designs.

René Magritte surreal installation on Brussels’ Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

Filip Dujardin Belgian artist who is an architectural photographer by profession and extends his fascination with the art form through his fictional building series

Filip Dujardin

Laurent Chehere series “Flying Houses,” which he began in 2007, is a fantastical exploration of the diverse and inspirational architecture of Paris, albeit not exactly the structures for which the city is known.

“I am interested by gypsies in caravans waiting for their eviction by the police, of immigrants from Africa in unsafe buildings, circuses on the edge of freeways surrounding Paris, dirty sex cinemas of Pigalle—and the quiet life in the suburbs,” Chehere wrote about his inspirations for the project.

Laurent Chehere

I got to explore surreal architecture design when creating this model. I really enjoy the possibilities of creating a 3D form that is more conceptual than functional. I also think it is very interesting how you can extract 2D inspiration to create something 3 dimentional.

I really enjoyed Rafman’s idea of taking existing things/places/pieces and creating alternate realities with them. I enjoy how a common place or object can be transformed to make the viewer think/ create conversation. Changing the norm.

I recently worked on a project where I turned the observation deck at city hall into a fish tank. Possible futures.