Summer 2016 - David Zielnicki / Zaneta Hong
Career Discovery - Landscape Architecture
Surface and Phenomena
Fueled by the interests in surface
The site given was the Charles River in Boston, MA. In terms of phenomena I was not particularly drawn to mapping pedestrian movement data on the sidewalks, nor was I drawn to the movement in the trees, but I was drawn to more specifically the oils on the water of the river. Although I did not know it at the time, the oils on the surface of the water were exceptionally hard to map. Being a pedestrian on the ground, only gave me a number of viewpoints in which I could document its movement.
(Bottom right images)
A few factors played roles in the movement of this residue, pedestrian movement on the river, geese, and of course the relatively strong winds that came through the channel. The bottom right two images are data I recorded on site of pathways from: boats, kayaks, canoes, and ferries.
(Bottom Image)
The bottom drawing is all the typologies I mapped out from the river, over-layed onto the site. These typologies were hand-drawn with pen, then scanned to produce a digital drawing. My attempt at combining all these patterns was to see if there was an over-arching theme in which the typologies had in common.
The sectional hybrid diagram shows the spacial relationships between the typologies at the measured cuts (S1, S2, S3, etc.). This was also an attempt at seeking out a common relationship between the surfaces.
(Top video)
In an attempt to capture the phenomena which I found most difficult to map, I polarized a video and created sped it up by 5x.
(Bottom Image)
These typologies were my first experiments in how to represent the patterns on the water.