Reports from the Borderlands

  • 2019—2021
  • 3D Animation / Rendering / Plan

Reports from the Borderlands

‘Reports from the Borderlands’ is a rather loose collection of architectural designs and graphic experiments from 2019-2021. It explores different tools of representation and animation to imagine abandoned realms and post-apocalyptic landscape scenarios.

Mapping of a No-mans-land

Virtual Photographies (From Dust and Ruins)

(Aerial Photo:)Top view onto the borderlands — an elevated footpath leads to its center.
We observe the abandoned city from its periphery
The ground is covered in dried-up dead wood fragments.
Section / Side view – revealing the ’emptiness’ under the surface topography and the rising ruins.
Silhouette of the city, with the enormous volcanic mountain rising in the background.
A structure reaches into the flat plains where once a salt lake used to be.
Close shot from our walk along the rusty industrial facilities that still can be found between the rocks and dunes.
Landscape initially emerges as anomalies in an ordered grid. Through densification and fractures, a topography slowly emerges that needs to be explored.