{"product_id":"botanica-i-corolla","title":"Botanica I — Corolla","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFuturopia Cities — Botanica Series\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr class=\"border-border-200 border-t-0.5 my-3 mx-1.5\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the work\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe flower decided to become a city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eCorolla\u003c\/em\u003e is the founding work of the \u003cem\u003eBotanica\u003c\/em\u003e series a new chapter in the \u003cem\u003eFuturopia Cities\u003c\/em\u003e universe in which architectural form is derived entirely from botanical geometry. Five great petal-like structural shells rise from a low curved base, each one ovoid, ribbed from within like a leaf under magnification, angled outward and upward in the universal language of a flower opening toward light. At the base, sepal-like forms curve along the ground, sheltering entrances through which small human figures move dwarfed, unhurried, entirely at home inside something that has grown around them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eDi Nicolantonio draws here without colour pen only, the line doing everything. And the line is exceptional: the interior ribbing of each petal shell is rendered with the patience of a botanical illustrator, the structural logic of each curve followed to its conclusion with the rigour of an engineer who has studied how plants distribute load across a curved surface. This is not architecture that looks like a flower. It is architecture that thinks like one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eCorolla\u003c\/em\u003e proposes a building that has resolved the oldest question in organic architecture not how to make a structure appear natural, but how to make it perform naturally. The petal form is not ornament. It is structure, envelope, and identity simultaneously.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eIn the Futuropia universe, \u003cem\u003eCorolla\u003c\/em\u003e is the cultural centre of Verdania the building that every resident recognises from a distance, the one that appears on every map of the city, the one that has been growing, slowly and deliberately, since before anyone can remember.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe first flower of the \u003cem\u003eBotanica\u003c\/em\u003e series. The one that made the others possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eAn original drawing from the \u003cem\u003eFuturopia Cities — Botanica\u003c\/em\u003e series by artist-futurist Sébastien Di Nicolantonio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr class=\"border-border-200 border-t-0.5 my-3 mx-1.5\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdition\u003c\/strong\u003e Unique original — one of a kind\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSignature\u003c\/strong\u003e Hand-signed by the artist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthentication\u003c\/strong\u003e Sold with certificate of authenticity and gallery invoice\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTechnique\u003c\/strong\u003e Original drawing — pen on paper\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e 29.7 × 42 cm — A3 format\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFraming\u003c\/strong\u003e Unframed — framing available upon request\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FUTUROPIA WORLD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58164708475205,"sku":null,"price":690.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1033\/6541\/1141\/files\/20260602_153829.jpg?v=1780513883","url":"https:\/\/www.futuropiaworld.com\/products\/botanica-i-corolla","provider":"FUTUROPIA WORLD","version":"1.0","type":"link"}