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powerful, yet the environment leaves its mark everywhere. This is not a future in which humanity has mastered nature; it is a future in which humanity is negotiating with it. The Prodigy towers embody that contradiction. They project confidence, authority and technological sophistication, yet their upper levels house only the wealthy 0.1%, living in affluent isolation, unaware of and uncaring for the masses living below. Beneath them all lies a city constantly managing water, heat and biological growth. This tension became central to the visual identity of the series. Neverland: Architecture as Organism If the Maginot represented our dialogue with the past, Neverland represented our exploration of environmental horror. The facility was conceived as a place where architecture and biology continuously intersect. At Prodigy, energy conservation requirements mean climate control can be maintained only in certain critical areas. Server rooms and specialist laboratories remain chilled. Most other spaces exist in a state of negotiated comfort. Humidity and biology are unavoidable, and their consequences are visible everywhere; drainage channels run through A B C A. PRODIGY CITY EXTERIOR. ILLUSTRATION BY VIRGINIE BOURDIN, ZANA BAMARNI, NESTOR DE SOUZA AND JEAN-PHILIPPE LECLERCQ. B. & C. PRODIGY CITY EXTERIOR. EARLY LOCATION PHOTO PAINT-OVER GRAPHICS STUDIES BY ARTYOM TURSKYI SHOWING THE IMPOSITION OF LATE '70S AND EARLY '80S NEVILLE BRODY-INSPIRED GRAPHICS ON POSSIBLE BANGKOK LOCATIONS.