Visualizing Urban Analysis

2017 Master of Landscape Architecture Candidate
LAR 502 Design Description Studio
North Carolina State University
Spring 2016

DESCRIPTION:

Visualization of urban analysis that combine qualitative and quantitative information.

OBJECTIVE:

Create visual representations of community-centered urban analysis.

METHODS:

The digital mixed-media collage of the East Durham community is a graphical representation of the community’s valuable culture, history with the tobacco trade, struggles with gentrification, and potential impact of future transit development. The urban analysis sketches are rough ideas and concepts that integrate historical, observational, and experiential data gathered during urban analysis with geospatial tools used to create maps and communicate findings.

RESULTS:

The collage and sketches are early visual prototypes of systems that organize qualitative information using quantitative concepts like network diagramming, resolution, typologies, hierarchy, order, and form. A deep interest and understanding of these ideas plays an important role in technological development for the urban realm.