'Clarice' is a digital visualization project conceived during the Architectural Association School of Architecture's two-week film production course. Inspired by Italo Calvino's literary masterpiece 'Invisible Cities' (1972), this project explores the cyclical nature of urban decay and rebirth through the lens of Clarice, a city that epitomizes the transient glory of civilizations.

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The project presents a poignant juxtaposition of two distinct epochs in Clarice's history, separated by half a millennium to a millennium. The visualization captures the essence of Clarice's street in both its incarnations: "once, as the pinnacle of grandeur, and then, as a city that has inherited the mantle of its own ruin, a shadow of its former self".

 

In its latest iteration, Clarice is reimagined as a dystopian, cyberpunk metropolis, with neon lights cutting through the darkness and noise of ventilation cycling through the air, casting an eerie glow on the remnants of the old city. While architecturally advanced, this new city is built upon the bones of the first Clarice, creating a layered narrative of progress and loss. The streets are a visual dialogue between the past and the future, where the echoes of splendour are enshrined within the very fabric of the city's dystopic transformation.