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An Architect Draws Buildings Inspired By Everyday Objects (30 Pics)
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Some artists look for inspiration in otherworldly places, while others use whatever is around them and make the most out of it! Brazilian architect, urban planner, building technician, and art lover Felipe de Castro turns everyday objects, places, and foods into unusual architectural designs. In his wild imagination, a face mask transforms into a hospital, a microphone is a hotel, a sandwich becomes an oddly-shaped building, and a stamp turns into an Apple office.
The 33-year-old artist based in Rio de Janeiro has liked to draw since he was a little kid and now he teaches students and professionals the techniques of perspective drawing. He has had a very vivid imagination since childhood and used to imagine household items in different scenarios, but started bringing his wild ideas to life only a few years ago.
"I always did these re-readings in my mind, I didn't draw on paper. When I was very little, I looked at objects imagining what these objects would look like on a much larger scale, how people would be walking under objects," Felipe de Castro told Bored Panda.
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Felipe de Castro graduated in architecture in 2018, although he has been working in the field since 2020. But he liked arts for as long as he can remember and used to create models of houses using ice cream sticks.
"Recently, I observed a pencil holder at my desk. I could imagine the construction of that pencil holder and I decided to draw it. I moved it to paper and created a construction from the proportion of this object on a larger scale. It's a kind of creativity exercise," Felipe de Castro told us how the project started.
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Felipe de Castro chose drawing to express himself because it's the easiest to understand.
"We have several ways of expressing ourselves: with speech, writing, body language, but drawing is a form that does not have many interpretations. Of course, except for surrealist drawing, and these drawings are more focused on art, but as our case is more technical and artistic, but more focused on architecture, people look and already have an understanding and an interpretation. The drawing is what the person is seeing."
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Biana Vacker 5 years ago
My thoughts as I read this; One: thank you! Two: siT DOWN
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SimplySarcastic40 5 years ago
when this is over i dont ever want to see one of these again...let alone a permanent structure dedicated to it.
Felipe de Castro says the biggest challenge in his drawing is imagining the object on a much larger scale and thinking of the real structure for the drawing. And yet, most of his drawings could actually be built in real life.
"Although it is a practice of drawing and an exercise in creativity, I try to create the drawings in a way that is possible to be built, some are just in concept, but most could be built."
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Felipe de Castro has gathered 62.2k followers on Instagram over the years. His innovative artwork serves not only as entertainment but for educational purposes as well.
"When I posted on social media, people liked it a lot. Everyone started to share it, it drew the attention of many people, including teachers from all over the world who have contacted me to say that they are doing these exercises with their students. This is very rewarding for me to know that I am helping students from all over the world."
So welcome to the surreal world of creative buildings inspired by the most unexpected objects! We encourage you to put your brain to work today and train your creativity and imagination as well by imagining and drawing objects around you as buildings!
Felipe de Castro told us that he hopes to one day build one of the buildings he invented, so maybe next time we will be putting everyday items side by side with real-life buildings.
"One of my drawings that I would like to build would be the Pendrive house as it would be a modern building, I like to bring interaction with the outside together with the movement, in this case, the waterfall."
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Mary Rose Kent 5 years ago
Sports arena surrounded by an ice-skating rink, which ends up becoming a survival event.
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Mary Rose Kent 5 years ago
The top level could be a café where people meet up before going to the movie together.
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Mary Rose Kent 5 years ago
My eyes see more Frank Lloyd Wright...and I mean this in the most positive of ways.
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Mary Rose Kent 5 years ago
There’s a cathedral in San Francisco that’s not too different from this.
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Freya the Wanderer 5 years ago
In Atlanta there is a skyscraper called the Pencil Building because the top looks like a sharpened pencil.
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KiwiBubbles 5 years ago
These are so cool! Inspiration for architecture coming from stuff like this... it's really creative, I really want to like, build these in Minecraft LOL they're beautiful!
Biana Vacker 5 years ago
First: THAT WAS AWSOME KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!! Second: i need a skate park one so i can say "tHaT waS lEgiTnEss"
Freya the Wanderer 5 years ago
I like the addition of greenspace on some of these - not just the surrounding land but on the structures themselves.
Rick Seiden 5 years ago
Some of those designs would work. The hospital could be built just like that in real life, for instance. Some of them, obviously, wouldn't work, but that watch inspired office building for Timex headquarters would really be ool.
Sergio Bicerra Descalzi 5 years ago
Most of these are very good ideas! I would love to work at a radio station in a building built like a microphone! Totally awesome work!
Oskar vanZandt 4 years ago
I have wondered many-a-times why our contemporary residential buildings (houses, flats etc.) cannot be more "future-inspired" and why builders keep creating housing developments that have varied little over the past 120 years? We're a far cry from where Sci-fi of the 1920s-1960s imagined we'd be in the twenty-first century!
Christina Uhlir 5 years ago
...can find an inspiration everywhere. I hope that those buildings and landscapes are as practical as are those objects which inspired their creation.
Iliana Villarreal 5 years ago
This is a creative exercise we use to do at university, it is a lot of fun and frees the mind of the student, I always loved to do these
Oscar Albrieu 5 years ago
In Córdoba, Argentina we have a government building that looks like the back of those old tube TV's. It's quite.... interesting multimedia...6-jpeg.jpg 
KiwiBubbles 5 years ago
These are so cool! Inspiration for architecture coming from stuff like this... it's really creative, I really want to like, build these in Minecraft LOL they're beautiful!
Biana Vacker 5 years ago
First: THAT WAS AWSOME KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!! Second: i need a skate park one so i can say "tHaT waS lEgiTnEss"
Freya the Wanderer 5 years ago
I like the addition of greenspace on some of these - not just the surrounding land but on the structures themselves.
Rick Seiden 5 years ago
Some of those designs would work. The hospital could be built just like that in real life, for instance. Some of them, obviously, wouldn't work, but that watch inspired office building for Timex headquarters would really be ool.
Sergio Bicerra Descalzi 5 years ago
Most of these are very good ideas! I would love to work at a radio station in a building built like a microphone! Totally awesome work!
Oskar vanZandt 4 years ago
I have wondered many-a-times why our contemporary residential buildings (houses, flats etc.) cannot be more "future-inspired" and why builders keep creating housing developments that have varied little over the past 120 years? We're a far cry from where Sci-fi of the 1920s-1960s imagined we'd be in the twenty-first century!
Christina Uhlir 5 years ago
...can find an inspiration everywhere. I hope that those buildings and landscapes are as practical as are those objects which inspired their creation.
Iliana Villarreal 5 years ago
This is a creative exercise we use to do at university, it is a lot of fun and frees the mind of the student, I always loved to do these
Oscar Albrieu 5 years ago
In Córdoba, Argentina we have a government building that looks like the back of those old tube TV's. It's quite.... interesting multimedia...6-jpeg.jpg
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