Figure ground architecture

Image 3 of 5 from gallery of Big Data and Urbanism: How to Organize Information for Optimal Application. Building Prints in the Center of Venice, London, Paris and Brasilia reveal the modernist investment of traditional urban spatial order.. Image graphics from "Spatial Information and the Legibility of Urban Form: Big Data in Urban Morphology" Under License CC BY 4.0

[Image: Broadway Boogie-Woogie (oil on canvas, 1943), by Piet Mondrian. For more details, see the note at the foot of this post.] From whiskey river: The art of living is based on rhythm — on…

Architecture Site Analysis figure ground, Building type, and landmarks diagram

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Site Info 15 Medway Street, Boston, MA Lower Mills, Dorchester Size - 42,438 SF Land Use - Commercial Figure/Ground Figure/Ground with property overlay This shows a more intuitive FG with the delineation of the street layout and Neponset River Site/Water analysis My thesis is based on the climate of New England. My first concern is the climate of the site. Here I took a preliminary look at the sun exposure and wind element of the site. Sun analysis. Info from gaisma.com Summer month…

This Page is [ARCHIVED CONTENT] and shows what the site page http://www.cabe.org.uk/case-studies/the-devonshire-quarter?photos=true%26viewing=823 looked like on 18 Jan 2011 at 09:53:56

We work at all scales and in all sectors. We create transformative cultural, corporate, residential and other spaces that work in synchronicity with their surroundings. 950 projects 44 countries 400 staff 55 nations Welcome to the interactive archive of Zaha Hadid Architects.

Three major approaches to urban design: 1. Figure-ground theory - relation between building mass and open space; 2. Linkage theory - dynamics of circulation 3. Place theory - Importance of historic, cultural and social values Fig. 4-1 in: TRANCIK, Roger (1986). Finding Lost Space. Theories of Urban Design. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York. ISBN 0-442-28399-7

My figure ground thumbnail drawings on Bristol board.

Liverpool Greenways: 5th Year UDP: Urban Design - Proposed Figure Ground diagram

Berlin New York Istanbul After last week’s post Comparing Urban Form and then seeing these amazing comparative maps by French artist Armelle Caron I was inspired to investigate urban form a l…

This figure ground map shows the site at the gateway to South Bank on the corner of Grey St and Melbourne St marked in cyan. It shows the physical context of the site, highlighting its position at …

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