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BÉTON
Brutalist archive. Zero JavaScript. Concrete honesty.
About the work
An archive of brutalist buildings that practices what it praises: not one line of JavaScript. Isometric SVG massing studies, a hard modular grid, system-weight type and a rotating textPath seal — everything the page does, CSS does.
How it was made
The constraint was the design: every interaction had to survive without script. Iteration went to the seal — the circumference and letter spacing had to be computed by hand — and to scoping styles so the massing drawings and the stamp could share a page.
Like every work in the exhibition, it passed three full iteration passes — a visual critique, a deepening pass, and a QA pass at 390px with reduced motion and zero console errors — and documents itself in its own build guide.
Key features
- The collection's only zero-JS site, by principle
- Isometric massing drawings built in raw SVG
- Hard grid with exposed structure, no decoration
- CSS-only rotating seal set on an SVG textPath
Technology
- Pure CSS
- SVG
- No JavaScript
In its own light
