Describing the City
The exercises we were required to do for the first module was to describe the city using several methods. These methods would help us depict the urban fabric of the city in different types of ways and highlight aspects that each of the previous methods wouldn't show.
Form Urbis
This shows the outline of the city and highlights the ways to access the city.
Conceptual Representation
It highlights the basic functionality of the city's CBD. (blue = river, red = residential, yellow = road, purple = commercial)
City Pattern
This technique further outlines the pattern of the roads which form the city.
Figureground Map
Shows the different building structures
Nolli Map
Further represents the building strucutres by providing some urban context and interior of buildings.
Street Section
shows the height/structural components of the buildings in contract to the typography and human scale
Urban Section
shows the city in contrast to it's environment
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