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| (c) Gilles Trehin |
From Gizmodo, the story of Gille Trehin.
"Spending a decade (or two) on a project isn’t uncommon amongst urban planners. Gilles Trehin is one of them. Except in Trehin’s case, the project is entirely fictional, and the scale is monumental.
Trehin has devoted the past twenty years to designing Urville, a city of twelve million on an imaginary European island. He started drawing when he was five and began working on Urville when he was fifteen. Since then, he’s produced hundreds of architectural drawings of the city."
Trehin is autistic, allowing him to concentrate in great detail when
creating his imaginary city. I can't say I'd like to have autism, but the level
of concentration is outstanding. Twenty years on the same project? I'm lucky if
I can train my brain to settle on something for twenty minutes.
His book on the city is available at your favourite river-based online store
Interestingly, this is filed under 'fiction'. Which is undoubtedly is, of
course, but this work of fiction is one which has no narrative, as such, apart
from the history of the city which Trehin has made up. It's not a novel. It's
not a poem. It's not even an architectural book, really. Is this a fiction all
of its very own?
How often is it you come across a completely new type of fiction? This is something which is genuinely original, and which probably could not be copied. A rare feat.
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