London College of Communication
Ya-Min Tseng
Post Graduate Diploma Visual Communication 15−16
Contents
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First Sight
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Building Patterns
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Transport
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Last Stop
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Night Patterns
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Bibliography
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Repetitive Patterns in The City
Repetitive Patterns In the City Everyday
Since more and more poeple move into the city, all the buildings are built up. The houses are closer too. More skyscrapers and tall building can be seen in the city. Those close windows and balconies form patterns. The space between people is smaller too, and we can see objects like cars, trolleys and chairs placed repeatedly in the same time. This publication gathers the repetitive patterns’ form because of rising population of city. And shows the patterns that you see from the time you wake up to sleep. They are the daily patterns in your surroundings but you may not pay attention to. With those pictures, you may find out the beauty of them and also feel the crowd in the city. Time 00:00 A new day begins. Eight hours later after you wake up, the patterns of the city is about to be shown in front of your eyes. On every side of the pages there is the time of the day.
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FIRST SIGHT
08:00 hrs.
Inside our own flat is like our little word. Everything is about you. But after you open the door, the space outside is not yours anymore. You have to share it with other people. And when the objects that belong to differnt people appear in the same time the repetitive pattern forms.
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First Sight
08:15 hrs.
Repetitive Patterns in The City
Mail Box
This is the first repetitive pattern you see everyday. That’s the thing that you wouldn’t see in country. Many people live in the same building nowadays. One mail box is for a family or an individual. The more people live in that building, the more mail boxes would be in the lobby.
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08:30 hrs.
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Building Patterns
08:45 hrs.
Repetitive Patterns in The City
BUILDING PATTERNS When we get out of our apartment, the whole city is right in front of us. In the city, buildings are built closer and higher that allowing more people to live into so we can see the windows, balconies and fire stairs being repeated around us.
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09:00 hrs.
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Window
Building Patterns
This is the most repetitive pattern you see everyday. A window is an opening in a wall, door, roof or vehicle that allows the passage of light and, if not closed or sealed, air and sound.
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09:15 hrs.
Repetitive Patterns in The City
09:30 hrs.
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Building Patterns
09:45 hrs.
Repetitive Patterns in The City
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Repetitive Patterns in The City
10:00 hrs. 14
Repetitive Patterns in The City
10:15 hrs.
Building Patterns
“ It doesn’t matter if you don’t have a complete set of anything because repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern.”
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10:30 hrs.
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Repetitive Patterns in The City
Balcony
Building Patterns
A balcony is a platform projecting from the wall of a building, supported by columns or console brackets, and enclosed with a balustrade, usually above the ground floor. Like windows, Balconies are outside the buildings, and they are the repetitions you see in the city.
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11:00 hrs.
Fire escape
A fire escape is a special kind of emergency exit, usually mounted to the outside of a building or occasionally inside but separate from the main areas of the building. It provides a method of escape in the event of a fire or other emergency that makes the stairwells inside a building inaccessible. Fire escapes are most often found on multiple-story residential buildings, such as apartment buildings. Thus, fire escape is another repetitive pattern that we can only see in the city.
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Building Patterns
11:15 hrs.
Repetitive Patterns in The City
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11:30 hrs.
Underground & Cycle
Both underground and cycle are common urban transport. The wheels of bikes, the gates of underground and the straps they all form repetitive patterns.
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Repetitive Patterns in The City
City Travel
CITY TRAVEL Transport is the movement of people from one location to another
11:45 hrs.
Modes of transport include air, rail, road, water, cable, pipeline and space. The field can be divided into infrastructure, vehicles and operations. Transport is important because it enables trade between persons, which is essential for the development of civilizations. Everyday we move from our home to other destination. To meet the people’s need of transport, there are more repetition be seen in the city.
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City Travel
12:15 hrs.
Repetitive Patterns in The City
The Automobile
A parking lot, also known as a car lot, is a cleared area that is intended for parking vehicles. In most countries where cars are the dominant mode of transportation, parking lots are a feature of every city and suburban area. Shopping malls, sports stadiums, megachurches and similar venues often feature parking lots of immense area.
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Repetitive Patterns in The City
LAST STOP After a long day work, people go to supermarket to get food or daily supplies. Supermarket stores huge number of products. When it comes to large quantities of objects, there are repetitive patterns.
18:30 hrs. 24
Last Stop
18:30
Repetitive Patterns in The City
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NIGHT PATTERN
When the sky is darker, light inside the buildings go through the windows, the shapes of the windows are clear. Because of the electricity, the patterns of the city at night look completely different from the day.
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Night Pattern
19:15 hrs.
Repetitive Patterns in The City
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Bibliography
Books The structure of the ordinary: form and control in the built environment N. J.Habraken - Jonathan Teicher - MIT Press - 1998
Websites “A Photographer Turns Cities Upside down.” My Design Stories. N.p., 06 Dec. 2013. Web. 26 Jan. 2016. “Peregrine Nation.” Peregrine Nation. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Jan. 2016. “Philipp Wortmann - Southwest Black and White.” Philipp Wortmann. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Jan. 2016. “Patterns in Real Life — Answers to Unasked Questions.” Answers to Unasked Questions. N.p., 27 Apr. 2013. Web. 26 Jan. 2016. “Horizontal and Vertical Lines.” OCA. N.p., 02 June 2012. Web. 26 Jan. 2016. “Scott Medway - PATTERNS OF THE LOOP.” Exposure. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Jan. 2016. “Anh Kian Trúc @archphotography.” Anh Kian Trúc @ archphotography. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Jan. 2016.
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Colophon
Design
Ya-Min Tseng
Riso printed in London College of Communication, Elephant and Castle,London
Typeface Avenir designed by Adrian Frutiger, 1988
Paper
Mengken 120gsm
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