Rotterdam Visual Abstract

Visual Abstract - First Attempt

This is my first attempt to visually portray "Things That I Can't Live Without" followed by the mapping of connections between these things. Hopefully, this will help me generate some topics for my thesis.

Visual Abstract

Topic Map

Things I Can't Live Without

The following are things I can't live without (in no particular order)...


the Blue Mosque (Istanbal, Turkey)
any works by Carlo Scarpa
the climb up St. Peter's Dome in Rome, Italy
Annie Leibovitz's photography
reading
Vrin, Switzerland
"Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be."
Castelvecchio (Verona, Italy by Carlo Scarpa)
ballerina sculptures by Degas
Herzog & deMeuron
the Grand Bazaar and the Spice Bazaar in Istanbul, Turkey
the Thermal Baths (Vals, Switzerland by Peter Zumthor)
Berlin, Germany (especially Adalbertstrasse 65)
Reina Sophia Museum (Madrid, Spain by Jean Nouvel)
"This too shall pass."
red poppy paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe
Norman Foster
Fondazione Querini Stampalia (Venice, Italy by Carlo Scarpa)
my family
the Holocaust Tower at the Jewish Museum (Berlin, Germany by Daniel Libeskind)
Santiago Calatrava
St. Benedict Chapel (Switzerland by Peter Zumthor)
Hearst Tower (New York, New York by Norman Foster)
traveling
"Work like you don't need the money."
Venice, Italy
Caixa Forum (Madrid, Spain by Herzog & deMeuron)
eating delicious food
Brion Tomb (Italy by Carlo Scarpa)
"Do what you love, love what you do."

Exploration of Architectural Ideas Through Collage and Section

My idea of threshold and procession as architectural terms changed after I defined the words. 

Threshold:  the border or limit of a region, the magnitude or intensity that must be reached for a certain condition to occur 

Procession:  an advance in orderly succession in a formal or ceremonial way, the emanation of the Holy Spirit

I used these definitions and my previous ideas about the terms to create abstract "sections" that portrayed the word spatially. (**Sections coming soon**)

 

Threshold

Procession

Exploration of Architectural Ideas Through Collage

These collages are a first attempt to visually portray the spatial qualities of the architectural terms threshold, procession, and scale and proportion.

Threshold - Boston Public Library Entrance Stairs

Threshold - Boston Public Library Entrance Hall

Procession - Boston Public Library Courtyard

Procession - Boston Public Library Courtyard

Scale and Proportion - Copley Square

Scale and Proportion - Copley Square