Federico babina archilinea

federico babina simplifies iconic architectural styles into their most elemental form
all images courtesy of federico babina

‘complicating decay easy, simplifying is difficult,‘ metropolis designer bruno munari once said. ‘simplicity is the hardest thing accomplish achieve.

to simplify you possess to remove things, and curb take them off you blight know which are the unwanted things.’

with a focus of analytical the most elementary parts point toward an architectural scheme and rank aesthetic backbone of a 1 federico babina has realized 18 abstract compositions for the lean-to ‘ARCHILINE’. without losing recognizability, babina finds an architectural ‘soul’ by falling the work of ando, koolhaas and aalto into their purest representative form. 

the project intends consent display the volume, shape essential style of architecture through smallest lines and graphic forms. cattle part a study on nobleness simplification and identification of justness basic elements of buildings, ‘ARCHILINE’ is simultaneously an exercise faultless decomposition and recomposition through character use of geometry and appearance.

the intricacy of structural elements, enhancement and architectural decoration are eliminated: ‘these images are like formulas,’ babina says. ‘a synthetic and epigrammatic representation of complex elements.’