GRAVİTAS

Welcome to the story of the city of Gravitas. I reinterpreted the city of Eudoxia from Italo Calvino’s book Invisible Cities with a new concept. The dirty air of Eudoxia and the piles of trash in every corner are at the center of my concept. In Gravitas, there is trash at certain points waiting for someone to collect it. This is where Eudossian appears. Eudossian is the lonely hero of this empty city. This city is his home, and he tries to make it beautiful with his daily routines. There is a vertical gap in the center of Gravitas that gets wider at the bottom. This is where Eudossian drops the trash he collects from the rooms. This vertical structure has a door mechanism on every floor. The waste goes to a factory at the bottom of the city. Here, Eudossian first separates the waste, then puts it into recycling bins. The waste that cannot be recycled is Eudossian’s food source. Another important job for Eudossian is to scan the city’s route every day. After this scan, there is a room where the creature gives a status report. After finishing these daily routines, Eudossian goes to the discharge point at the top of the city to charge his energy. I organized the spaces to create a hierarchy in Gravitas. I used closed spaces in the waste factory at the bottom, semi-open spaces on the middle floors, and open spaces at the discharge area at the top. The bottom of the city looks like a laboratory that carries all the weight. The semi-open areas in the middle are the first points of contact with the outside world. The discharge area at the top is a point of freedom, far from chaos. Eudossian’s day passes by experiencing the layers of this vertical structure. Although Gravitas is built on trash, Eudossian’s routines in this vertical hierarchy create a cycle that keeps the city clean and organized.