A FEARLESS WORLD
Exploration / 2022-2023
P R E M I S E
In a prosperous post-2090s world, humanity's lack of challenges stifles innovation, prompting the X Republic government to launch the Fearless Program by the late 21st century. This mandatory initiative simulates physical and mental obstacles for children to foster resilience and creativity...
E X P E R T I S E
Research
Visual Development
Exploration Concept Art
Art Direction
Environment Design
Architecture
C R E D I T
Ang Abdial - Director
James Nguyen - Creative Dir.
Ky Huynh - Head Op.
Harry Nguyen - Assist. 3D Artist
Team Beyond Us
A R C H I T E C T U R E
In 2023, team Beyond Us initiated the visual development process for the internal project A Fearless World. We approached the project from the architectural lens of Eco-brutalism.
Eco-brutalism merges brutalism's powerful, utopian aesthetic—rooted in Soviet-era architecture—with eco-conscious design, integrating flourishing greenery into its stark, post-modernist forms.
M O O D
Greig Fraser’s belief that unnoticed cinematography signals a strong story, underscores our philosophy that narrative drives impactful imagemaking.
In A Fearless World, we translate this into retro-futuristic eco-brutalist architecture, using mood illustrations— informed by naturalistic lighting, 1990s photography, and Fraser’s filmography—to seamlessly amplify the story and its tone.
B E H I N D T H E S C E N E S
Brutalism’s architectural versatility shines beyond its cold, monolithic stereotype, enriched by constructivist integration, playful structural patterns, and textural variety.
To explore this, we began our design process with 20-40 storey buildings, asking how monolithic forms can serve residential needs, support modular mobile apartments, reflect contemporary brutalism, and incorporate constructivism.
