What was their thinking behind their Always Building creation?
“The build is based on the idea of having different potential futures,” explains Tom. “I was discussing the theme with our builder Boorizz, and he wanted to build something bright, simple, and positive based on concept art of sustainable cities. I was kind of at the other side of the spectrum, willing to build something complex and dark, with a style inspired by bio-punk and neo-noir movies and comics. I had the idea of having two futures that oppose to each other: utopia and dystopia.”
But which is which? The answer may not be so simple, as Tom explains: “As I don’t believe things are that black and white, I tried to put some ambiguous elements in the build, so we can’t really tell which is the dystopia or the utopia.”
“The most technical part was the upper part,” says Tom. “It was hard to make something extremely clean with no detail look good. It was important to make that part as smooth and bright as possible to oppose it to the messy and dark part below. Also, the interiors’ pseudo-nonsense really did challenge the creativity of our builder Whisper.”
Not being a build team, in the strict sense of the idea, this may be the last time Deep Academy build together under that name, says Tom: “We’ve always been a group of solo builders with solo projects, but we will always support each other in our projects.”
We’re honoured to be the recipients of Deep Academy’s final work - but Tom assures us that the individual members are far from finished, so keep an eye out for what they do next.
Look out for our Facebook poll tomorrow where you can decide the theme for the next and final (?) stage of Always Building!
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