Media Technology :: 11.310J Media Technology and City Design and Development, Fall 2002

Urban Design Skills ::Urban Design Skills: Observing, Interpreting, and Representing the City, Fall 2002

:: resources

this looks like a goldmine!!!

www.urbis-resources.org.uk

www.urbis.org.uk

  
  
  
 
  ::Task Creating final model for workshop
  ::Idea I used patterns/shapes from pictures of Taipeh Housing. First I wanted to fold a couple of these buildings with cardboard, but then i went on using just the folding-shapes to construct my model. My aim was to deconstruct the normative shapes of public housing and create open spaces in contrast to the cubish skyscrapers. I wanted to transform the bodies into flat 2D objects. I also used some of the photos below the site, and scarved out one of the numbers which are put on the houses so you can easily identify where you live because they all look the same. My model also doesn't have any patterns. It's the patterns that make the houses on the Taipeh pictures unique, not the architecture. So these patterns shine trough where i carved out shapes on the base of my site.