BRUTOPIA 1: Raphael Lacoste's City Between Utopia and Dystopia

Two figures occupy a small rooftop ledge. Around them, concrete walls rise into towers, balconies repeat across the facades and birds cross the gaps. In Raphael Lacoste's BRUTOPIA 1, those small signs of life make the architecture feel enormous.

Lacoste traces the series to photographs he took in Split 3, a modernist neighbourhood in Croatia. In his project description, he explains how he transformed the buildings' scale, atmosphere and geometry into an imagined city. He lists 3ds Max and Arnold as the tools used.

Warm light picks out the concrete edges while the lower walkways fall into shadow. The wider composition establishes the city; the closer view brings its inhabitants into focus. The accompanying wireframe offers a different look at the same arrangement of towers, balconies and rooftop structures. Explore all three original images below, with the artist's marks and complete frames preserved.