urban occupation : berlin

As we participate in the urban environment we carry with us visual experiences; memories.

There is a langauge/network that visually links the city and our memory of our participantion within it.

This project reflects the system of signs built up through the city as a quilt of information {footpaths, roads and buildings all have a materiality that tells a story}

Instead it looks to the visual networks that can be created through memories of space.

By breaking the urban quilt into modulated visual extracts, abstracted networks can be generated highlighting the often unnoticed links {do we walk slower or faster on cobblestones; what does a strip of red on the footpath tell us}

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The environment that surrounds our everyday flow through a city, goes beyond the shapes cut by buildings, train stations and streets though the urban format.  This study is trying to look beyond this by investigating the textures and materiality of the urban sprawl surrounding Rosa Luxembourg Platz.  Constructed through an abstracted collage of the surfaces of buildings, footpaths and green space, this study aims to map the diversity of the tactile environment surrounding the platz.  (If anyone would like the original AI file or 6 page pdf please let me know and I can bring it to class)