Vertical City
-- An investigation and experiment of urbanism
The design evolves around the relationship between city metric with architecture metric.
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I began by selecting interesting parts of the city of Paris, and reimagine the relationships between boroughs and zoning districts, as well as the density of buildings.
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In the following diagrams, I tried to represent urban area using map projected by three-dimensional buildings. Merging both map surface with architectural vertical into singular diagram creates interesting insights in urban, building, and interior design.
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Dec 2016, Philadelphia PA