Urville (fictional city)
Urville is a fictional town, planned and brought to paper by Gilles Tréhin , a French autistic and art - Savant .
Emergence
Tréhin started drawing at the age of 5 and has been working on the design of Urville since 1984 , named after the French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville . In the imagination of Trehin, Urville was planned by Oscar Laballière (1803-1883) and is located in the French department of Alpes-Maritimes .
According to the designs, Urville is now home to around 12 million residents. In the meantime there are precise representations of the city and its individual districts and buildings , and it is still being "rebuilt" and changed today. Looking at the drawings gives the impression that the individual resident is stepping back behind the architecture . The cityscape makes a well-ordered impression, the arrangement of the buildings is often symmetrical and accurate. In addition to skyscrapers, there are also neighborhoods with residential buildings and shopping streets, including houses in the style of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Squares are usually of enormous size, so that here too the individual takes a back seat in the overall impression. The drawings also represent fictional "sights" such as the column of the Declaration of Human Rights and 150 .
literature
- Gilles Tréhin: Urville . Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2006, ISBN 1-84310-419-9 ( online in Google Book Search).
Web links
- Urville homepage. Gilles Tréhin, archived from the original on August 22, 2013 ; Retrieved September 24, 2016 (French).
- Darold A. Treffert : Gilles Trehin: The City of Urville. Wisconsin Medical Society, accessed September 24, 2016 .
- Savant - Gilles Trehin (3 min 35 s) in English on YouTube
- Gilles Tréhin un Autiste qui vie dans l 'IMAGINAIRE URVILLE (8 min 14 s) in French on YouTube
- City of dreams: Autistic artist reveals extraordinary pictures of intricate metropolis ... which he has designed in his mind for 20 years. Daily Mail , February 21, 2012, accessed September 24, 2016 .