Darkitecture: Designing a Sooktacular Façade for your Haunted Attraction

By Leonard Pickel

Hauntrepreneurs® Themed Attraction Design and

Consulting

Designing a Spooktacular Façade for Your Haunt

First Impressions are Powerful

What Makes a Great Façade?


What Makes a Great Façade?Visibility


What Makes a Great Façade?Impact


What Makes a Great Façade?Drama


What Makes a Great Façade?Tells a Story


What Makes a Great Façade?

“A house without a history cannot be Haunted”

Stephen King


The House your Parents Warned You to Say Away From!

Spooky Architectural History

Spooky Architectural HistoryGhost Town

Flat Façade Shed PorchHitching Posts

Spooky Architectural HistoryIndustrial

BrickLow Pitched

Or Flat RoofsSmoke StacksClear Story

WindowsDirty/Grimy Pipes

Medieval Castle

Battlements RampartsTowersArcher Slits


Medieval Manor House

Castle LightSteep Tile Roofs


Medieval Manor House

Castle LightSteep Tile Roofs Stone WallsChimneys


Medieval Gothic Church

SpiresGothic Arches and

WindowsHeaven and Hell



Gargoyles



Grotesques


Spooky Architectural HistoryPrisons

Stone or BrickBared WindowsCastle LookingTypically

Gothic in Style

Spooky Architectural HistoryAsylums and Hospitals

Large Buildings with Wings

Wide Compared to Height

Brick or StoneFlat or Pitched Roofs

Spooky Architectural HistoryVictorian Era 1837–1901

Rein of Queen Victoria in Britain

Spooky Architectural HistoryVictorian

Greek RevivalLow Slope RoofsColumnsPedimentsBalconies


ItalianateCupolaLarge Over

HangsDecorative

BracketsShallow Pitch

RoofArched WindowsGingerbread

Porch


Gothic RevivalSteep RoofsGothic Arches

and WindowsSharp Points


Second EmpireMansard or

Bellcast Mansard Roof

Decorative Slate Shingles

DormersDeep Bracketed

EvesCorner BoardsTall Windows


Queen AnneGingerbreadTowersBalconiesChimneysMixed Styles

Real Life Scary Places

Amityville Horror


Amityville Horror


As it looks today

Winchester Mystery House


Vihisca Ax Murder House


Borden Murder House


Ed Gein House


John Wayne Gacy


Scary Television Houses

Scary Television HousesDo you recognize this

house?

The Munsters


Scary Television HousesHow about this one?

The Addams Family


Scary Television HousesThis one is a bit more

obscure.

Dark Shadows


Scary Movie Houses

Scary Movie HousesDo you recognize this

house?

Psycho

Scary Movie Houses

Poltergeist

Scary Movie Houses

Phantasm

Scary Movie Houses

Amityville Horror

Scary Movie Houses

The Addams Family

Scary Movie Houses

Scary Disney Architecture

Haunted MansionCalifornia


Haunted MansionFlorida


Haunted MansionTokyo


Phantom ManorFrance


Tower of TerrorFlorida


Tower of TerrorCalifornia


Tower of TerrorTokyo


Tower of TerrorFloridaCaliforniaTokyo


Early Haunted Mansion Design


Early Haunted Mansion

Designing a Spooky Façade

Faces


FacesAdding a face in

the Architecture is an easy way to make a façade look scarier!

You can even add expressions to the face.


Vertical Forced Perspective

Forced Perspective

Classic Shrinking Hallway

Forced Perspective

Fractional Perspective : The first floor of a building is built at a reduced scale, seven-eighths of reality. A second floor is build at seven-eighths of the main floor. A third floor, if there is one, would be seven-eighths of the floor below it, and so on.


Fractional Perspective: The first floor of a building is built at a reduced scale, seven-eighths of reality. A second floor is build at seven-eighths of the main floor. A third floor, if there is one, would be seven-eighths of the floor below it, and so on.


DimensionTall and Thin is Scarier Than Short and Wide


Designing a Spooky FaçadeDimension

Tall and Thin is Scarier

Towers


Make It Crooked


Make It Look Unsafe!


LocationSpooky Trees


LocationCemetery


LocationOn a Hill


Distressing and Age


Vines and Moss


AtmosphereLighting


Lightning


RealismMake it Look

Real!


RealismMake it Look Real!


InspirationFacade

RealismMansard Roof


RealismDetails


AbandonedBoarded Up


AbandonedOver Grown


AbandonedDilapidated


Boarded Up


Pure Creativity

Haunts In Art

Attraction Examples

Haunt Facades

Attraction Examples

Castle Haunted Attraction Façades

Attraction Examples

Halloween Horror Nights Façades

Attraction Examples

Asylum Façade

Attraction Examples

Farm House Façade

Examples

Farm House Façade

Attraction Examples

Inspiration

Farm House Façade

Examples

Inspiration Design

Farm House Façade

Attraction Examples

Inspiration

Farm House Façade

Attraction Examples

Inspiration

Design

Approximate Time Period Hints at What May Be In StoreEnhances the ExperienceIncreases Excitement Tells a Storyand It Sells Tickets!


Leonard Pickel

Hauntrepreneurs® Themed Attraction Design and

Consulting972-951-5100

[email protected]

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