High Line

 

The High Line in New York City by Diller Scofidio + Renfro is a great use of urban space.  The High Line is located on the West Side of Manhattan and utilizes the abandoned elevated railroad track. The 1.5 mile stretch of the elevated railroad track is full of plantings indigenous to the northeast, lots of areas for resting and gathering and gives you great views of the city skyline.  The use of materials, from the reuse of the railroad tracks to the concrete walks coming out of the ground makes it seem like the high line has been there for 100 years and not just a year.  The vegetation is actually what grew naturally on the railroad tracks for the 40 years that it was abandoned and there aren't any plantings or trees that are unnatural to the area.

Collage Section III

This image is using the previous collage section and editing the contrast and richness of the image to give the image a better visual quality.

Collage Section II: Transparency

These two images represent the second iteration of the collage section of transparency.  I used different techniques of scanning in water and the manipulating it the way I wanted to.  The two sections are not so close to the term transparency anymore than any other word on the vocabulary list.  These two images can very easily represent numerous different terms and are starting to take on a spatial context as well.

Collage Section: Transparency

This image represents an abstract section through the transparency collages of water.  If you cut through water or a wave you would often represent that section with a ground plane and the water level represented in one way or another.  However, with this section I am cutting through water and showing the actual water droplets that you would only see on a very small scale.  The void that the images create and the texture of the background lack a scale and depending on the viewer, can be depicted in many different ways.

Collage Section: Scale and Proportion

This section of the scale and proportion collage is taken as if you cut right through the collage and actually saw the proportions of the buildings directly next to each other.  This section is both literal and abstract since it does show a rough section of the buildings but also creates a figural void that can be perceived to be numerous different object on their own or as a whole.

Collage II: Transparency

This is the second iteration of my previous transparency collage.  With this collage I used water in a different context than previously.  By adding the grid like structure to the picture there is also some sense of scale to the image which the previous collage lacked.  This collage is starting to steer away from the transparency vocabulary and is starting to represent scale and proportion more.

Collage II: Scale and Proportion

This collage is the second iteration of the scale and proportion collage previously posted.  This collage primarily focuses on the scale and proportions of the neighborhoods in Boston.  Even though all the images are very similar, the scale and proportions are distorted to represent a different image that can be perceived to be many different things.

Collage: Transparency

For this collage I wanted to show the different characteristics that a transparent object can have.  For this specific example I chose water.  Water, on its own is very transparent such as a in clear glass or in your hands.  However, when water is surrounded by other objects it seems to lose its transparent characteristic and begins to reflect its surroundings.  A body of water, whether the ocean, a lake, a river or any other body of water, reflects everything around it and from afar doesn't seem transparent but instead can resemble a giant mirror.  The transparency of water depends on what its surrounded by and doesn't always seem transparent.


Transparency Collage II

Collage: Scale and Proportion

For this collage I wanted to show what I think are the most important factors in a city, which are the neighborhoods and people that inhabit them.  I increased the scale of the city blocks that make up the population of the city and decreased the size of the city skyline to represent that the city blocks are the backbone of most cities and the skyline is usually just commercial buildings where people go to and from work.  The people who live in the neighborhoods help to shape the city the way everyone sees it, which is often forgotten by people who view the city from afar.


Scale and Proportion Collage II

Collage: Movement

For this collage I choose the word movement and dissected the movement that happens on the streets of Boston.  Although all the movement happens on the same level, often crossing paths in different ways, I took the different types of movement and put them on different levels to represent the various speeds that occur.  The street is filled with numerous 'levels' that all have to co-exist on the same level.  If each level traveled on its own plane, would everything move a lot better or still be as congested as it is now?


Movement Collage Part II