Original Architecture
Original Architecture is a term now used to describe the style and design of architecture and interior design of the Lucidus mission spacecraft modules that landed in Illuminatia. These modules comprised the entirety of the first artificial human-occupied structures on Neonisi until larger structures could be constructed utilizing local planet-based resources. Original Architecture existed for a very short period of early Illuminatian history and is referred to entirely retrospectively.
While this architecture did not have a name at the time, it become distinct and identifiable once the advancement and differentiation in aesthetics in early Illuminatian architecture caused the architecture of the Lucidus modules to become notable enough to earn a name in the popular colloquial lexicon.
Original Architecture is considered to be extensively efficient, minimalist, and utilitarian. This was by necessity, as the structures were themselves at one time parts of a larger spacecraft, which itself was built with extreme efficiency and miniaturization in mind. Lucidus modules were multi-purpose spaces because the Lucidus mission ships had to make efficient use of space and resources. The modules, after they landed, were necessary for the first years of Illuminatian settlement but quickly became unusable because of the demands of population, productivity, and industry.
Lucidus modules, bringing the first human population to the Neonisi planet, became the sites of settlements that would become Illuminatia's primary settlement cities and become the core of these settlements. Original Architecture existed only in these primary settlement cities. Original Architecture was rapidly replaced with new buildings which made better use of the much greater available space on the planet's surface, as the high-predictable and prior-planned additions to these original settlements took place at a brisk pace with the building of buildings and laying of infrastructure making use of local planet-based resources, which were abundant.
Original Architecture shares aesthetic similarities with the Fin de Mission style of architecture, with clear distinctions. While Original Architecture refers to the motifs and spartan decorations of actual Lucidus equipment and structures, Fin de Mission instead is a fashion that simply exercises a memory of what the original architecture of the Lucidus modules impressed upon the collective popular recollection of this bygone era of austere built surroundings. Original Architecture gave way to an ethos of design that became the basis of Deconstruct Nouveau.
Original Architecture remained standing and existed side-by-side with the earliest Illuminatia-native architecture for only a short few AU in dwindling numbers before being replaced. Original Architecture in the context of planet-bound living was seen to be cramped. Popular tastes veered quickly to Illuminatian-built structures that afforded spaces with individual uses, such as single-purpose rooms and single-purpose buildings. This was an expected evolution in architecture and the dismantling and discarding of Original Architecture structures was not lamented or grieved but instead seen as necessary and inevitable.
The aesthetic qualities of Original Architecture have remained difficult to describe, not only because examples of the architecture were largely gone by the time it became a category and therefore could not be directly observed, but also because it possessed a quality of blankness or a lack of noticeability.