"Retrato de Tenochtitlán" es una investigación donde el artista digital Thomas Kole revive la arquitectura de Tenochtitlán antes de la invasión española en México. Esta recreación logra adentrarnos en la que fue la capital del imperio mexica, su antigua forma de vida y ayudarnos a visualizar cómo ha cambiado a través del tiempo.
Link del proyecto:
https://tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl/es.html
Link del proyecto:
https://tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl/es.html
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00:00 Do you know how Mexico City looked like 500 years ago?
00:05 You are in 1513.
00:07 Around you, the clouds pass slowly.
00:11 You can see the volcanoes and Lake Texcoco.
00:15 The sound is not of cars and planes, but of birds, voices in Nahuatl and constant drums.
00:22 Water flows through the avenues and canoes that transport flowers and food.
00:28 Could you make an image with all these elements?
00:32 A.D. Insider, a journey to the heart of pieces and outstanding architectural, art and design projects,
00:39 in which we explain the relevance of these jewels.
00:42 Tomás Cole and a group of experts based on historical and archaeological sources
00:47 recreated Tenochtitlán in the most faithful way possible, using current technology.
00:52 It is the year 1518.
00:54 Mexico-Tenochtitlán, which was once a modest settlement, is today a bustling metropolis,
01:01 capital of an empire that governs and receives tributes from more than 5 million people.
01:06 Tenochtitlán houses 200,000 inhabitants dedicated to agriculture, art, trade, war, priesthood and government.
01:16 In the present, this city is known as the City of Mexico.
01:21 In reality, there is not much left of the ancient Tenochtitlán.
01:25 The project allows us to consider the notion of space that our ancestors had
01:30 and shows us how the capital looked from various perspectives and climatic phenomena.
01:35 The grid pattern reveals that Tenochtitlán is a city of hierarchies.
01:40 The neighborhoods are carefully planned and have markets, schools and workshops of their own.
01:47 The droughts are maintained to facilitate the transport of people and goods.
01:52 Steps and bridges form the fabric of the city.
01:56 The houses were made of wood and marble, the roofs were made of reeds,
02:01 although the pyramids, temples and palaces were generally made of stone.
02:07 How is the ancient Tenochtitlán related to the city we know today?
02:12 Building a city on a lake involves a constant fight against water.
02:16 A complex system of ditches, canals, exclusions and a 16-kilometer-wide ravine
02:22 totals the mexicas of fresh water from the mountains.
02:26 The mexicas make cultivable plots by nailing stakes in the bottom of the lake
02:30 and filling the space with soil and gravel.
02:33 In the chinampas, corn, beans, pumpkin, chili and flowers were grown.
02:39 The city of Mexico rose above the ruins of Tenochtitlán.
02:43 The stones of the temples that were demolished were reused after the Spanish conquest.
02:48 The lake was drained, the canals became streets.
02:52 Of the original metropolis, there is almost nothing left.
02:56 "Retrato de Tenochtitlán" by Thomas Cole is a project that connects us with our historical roots,
03:02 challenges us to think about our identity and shows us how the past is still alive in the present.
03:09 The project was made with open source software, Blender, Gimp and Darktable.
03:15 And the bases have a CC 4.0 Creative Commons license.
03:21 (dramatic music)
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