D'ni Architecture

[kaelisebonrai]

G'day all, I was wondering if any of you can think of... well, a general definition of the style of D'ni Architecture. I've been looking over some concepts, and have been taking a few shots to have a look, but, the closest I can come up with, is Art Deco meets Saxon architecture...

Would love to know the thoughts of you guys, regarding D'ni Architecture, I'm planning on doing some modelling around this style, both physical models (miniatures, in other words), and 3d models.

What do you all think, well, defines D'ni architecture?

[kaelisebonrai]

Hate to double post, but, here we go:

I've gathered a collection of (official) concepts of D'ni architecture.











































http://guildofartisans.org/dnistuff/uru ... urhood.jpg (I'm not making this one an viewable image due to the sheer size of it.)

[Chacal]

Amazing collection. Some of these I had never seen.
Quite useful research.

[J'Kla]

Given a history spanning hundreds of years we can slot just about any style of architecture into D'ni history. The main style has to be the one prevalent at the fall but the concept of closed ages mean that there can be any style you like from Gothic Victorian to Greco/Roman to Medieval wattle and daub mud hut. A lot of the interiors are modern civic engineering on a Victorian scale. Things like the Great Zero all the grandeur of a massive Victorian machine clothed in austere lines with lasers and minimalist decoration. Yet we look at the floor of the great zero and see an intricate map.

We have a Library with no bookshelves empty or full. The Kadish gallery with examples of what we would probably call contemporary/modern art There is definitely elements of art deco and features reminiscent of the arts and craft movement. If we use all human history as a note book and D'ni history is meant to be longer surely there must be more styles in D'ni architecture than there are in our own.

I have been looking through the fan created ages and while the styles are many and various who are we to say that at some time in it's past the D'ni found any one of them asthically pleasing.

If I had to give a label to Ae'gura and the Guilds I would have to fall for Large scale Arts/Craft movement with big time civic funding.

[kaelisebonrai]

J'Kla, I agree that the D'ni during their history would have many different styles of Architecture, but, I'm not sure I agree that all of them would resemble the styling of our own history.

Their pre-historic/early history periods were on Gaternay, and thus, the requirements and materials for building would've been different, along with the different cultural elements that led the development of their artistic styling.

As for the period in the Cavern, on Earth/D'ni... Again, they would've had very different cultural development, and thus different artistic styling, as well as different influences on their artistic communities. Along with vastly different functional requirements on their architecture. These things, I feel would lead to different styles of architecture during their history, some (if not most) vastly different to our historical architecture.

That's not to say some ages would've had pre-existing structures similar to our history, and that's not to say in the great tree of possibilities, that we would not have almost exact duplicates of past human cultures, some with the same architecture as those here on earth in our history.

[Tweek]

where did you find this one?

[kaelisebonrai]

I'm not sure of its origin, appearantly from the source I got it from, says its a lightened/enhanced image of a file contained in the uru datafiles. i think its a link-image. Don't know much more about it, other than that. Its the most dubious of the files I have.

[D'nial]

where did you find this one?

http://www.guildofwriters.com/wiki/AgeGallery#Temple_of_Illumination

Look, I answered something! Hooray!

[kaelisebonrai]

D'nial: Are you sure that's the same age? The images don't match... The only images i've seen of that fan age don't match that image in particular....

EDIT: also note: the closest images to that one, mention that it was made from stock Cyan textures, and some stock models, so, it is still possible that this is not the fan age by GPNMilano.

[J'Kla]

Going back to kaelisebonrai's response I must not have made it clear I am not saying D'ni achitecture would allways mirror our own history just that there would be places where styles looked similar and there could be others where ages would look like a fusion of two or more of our styles/periods.

There are numerous styles current on earth now for example Timbuktu in the Sahara has multi story buildings made from mud bricks. A building material not exactly suitable for Cumbria in the UK.

The D'ni books (hard copy) speak of their ability to mould and form shapes in Nara a material harder and stronger than any natural rock I am left wondering how they would demolish such buildings when fashions change. Obviously another area for speculation.