Symmetrical Timescape

A classical floor plan set in motion.

Symmetry in a drawing reads as cohesive, harmonious proportion. Different disciplines and cultures have long disagreed about how symmetrical form should be used, in traditional media and in computational art. This piece works inside that disagreement.

The source is an unbuilt floor plan by the French architect Marie-Joseph Peyre, drawn in the 18th century and never realized as a building.

I remodeled the drawing parametrically so its geometry could be manipulated as data instead of a fixed image.

The transformations run through Cinema4D and creative coding. Each frame pushes the plan's symmetry logic through a different moment in time.

I approached the plan not as architectural documentation but as a microbe, a spontaneous image that constantly gathers, expands, slips, and shrinks.

Each final render freezes the form at a particular time in its past, a dialogue between the architecture and its own timescape.