Deconstruct Nouveau

Deconstruct Nouveau is a style of architecture, product design, and fashion first employed in Illuminatia around AI 270. The popularity of the style peaked around AI 310.

Deconstruct Nouveau is characterized by the use of shapes and patterns that evoke an atmosphere of crumbling, falling, or failing structures. The style frequently employs asymmetry to make a building or product appear to be imploded, smashed, or partially demolished. These mechanisms are used often in conjunction with starkly contrasting flat patterns that suggest a sense of being repaired, mended, or patched-together. Textiles demonstrating the Deconstruct Nouveau fashion often use frayed edges, large holes, and prints of splintering geometric patterns.

Deconstruct Nouveau was first popularized by a collective sense of nostalgia for older architecture styles from the early years of Illuminatia's infrastructure and architecture development during a period when these structures were first beginning to decay and degenerate.

While Deconstruct Nouveau sometimes makes use of motifs and ornamentation founded in the Original Architecture style, it most often exercises a study instead into architectural styles subsequent to that of Original Architecture.

Deconstruct Nouveau buildings often appear within the vicinity of Science Deco buildings in the urban environment, as Science Deco reached its highest popularity as a style of architecture not long before Deconstruct Nouveau caught on. Deconstruct Nouveau is generally not influenced by Science Deco, as Science Deco-styled structures were not decrepit enough to elicit the incorporation of their own elements into a style that grew from being motivated by heavily dilapidated buildings and infrastructure.