zora
Story Beyond six rivers and three mountain ranges rises Zora, a city that no one, having seen it, can forget. But not because, like other memorable cities, it leaves an unusual image in your recollections. Zora has the quality of remaining in your memory point by point, in its succession of streets, of houses along the streets, and of doors and windows in the houses, though nothing in them possesses a special beauty or rarity. Zora's secret lies in the way your gaze runs over patterns following one another as in a musical score where not a note can be altered or displaced. The man who knows by heart how Zora is made, if he is unable to sleep at night, can imagine he is walking along the streets and he remembers the order by which the copper clock follows the barber's striped awning, then the fountain with the nine jets, the astronomer's glass tower, the melon vendor's kiosk, the statue of the hermit and the lion, the Turkish bath, the cafe at the comer, the alley that leads to the harbor. This city which cannot be expunged from the mind is like an armature, a honey- 15 comb in whose cells each of us can place the things he wants to remember: names of famous men, virtues, numbers, vegetable and mineral classifications, dates of battles, constellations, parts of speech. Between each idea and each point of the itinerary an affinity or a contrast can be established, serving as an immediate aid to memory. So the world's most learned men are those who have memorized Zora. But in vain I set out to visit the city: forced to remain motionless and always the same, in order to be more easily remembered, Zora has languished, disintegrated, disappeared. The earth has forgotten her. Calvino, Italiano - Zora
Keywords Point to point
pATTERNS
oRDER
……Zora has the quality of remaining in your memory point by point…..
…..Zora's secret lies in the way your gaze runs over patterns following one another as in a musical score where not a note can be altered or displaced. ….
…..if he is unable to sleep at night, can imagine he is walking along the streets and he remembers the order by which the copper clock….
VISUALIZATION ….Zora has the quality of remaining in your memory point by point, in its succession of streets, of houses along the streets, and of doors and windows in the houses, though nothing in them possesses a special beauty or rarity……
Point by Point there is something remarkable each point Make a rhytm or a pattern
….Zora's secret lies in the way your gaze runs over patterns following one another as in a musical score where not a note can be altered or displaced…..
The pattern are already memorized by the line of the shapes…
…but once the line is altered/change, the pattern become unreconizeable and mislead.
……The man who knows by heart how Zora is made, if he is unable to sleep at night, can imagine he is walking along the streets and he remembers the order by which the copper clock follows the barber's striped awning, then the fountain with the nine jets, the astronomer's glass tower, the melon vendor's kiosk, the statue of the hermit and the lion, the Turkish bath, the cafe at the comer, the alley that leads to the harbor…….
the barber's striped awning
the fountain with the nine jets
the copper clock the astronomer's glass tower
the Turkish bath harbor the cafe at the comer
the melon vendor's kiosk
the statue of the hermit and the lion
1st Sketch
2nd Sketch
Sketch VISUALIZATION
street
houses
VISUALIZATION
The city make an order point to point, from copper clock to next point. The city street become linear, and the houses make a repetitive rhytm. The street is taken as the base of the order. Houses become border and each point (copper clock etc) become the marks of each transition, in this sketch, the point when color changes.
Modeling
a
B
This model represent the unaltered or cant be displaced order that makes the city unforgottenable. Each order have their own characteristic in position, size and forms but still create its rhytm of order.
Side A
When looking though inside the model, we can see the borders representation of the houses order. The size, and forms are different each line but it make the pattern thru next side, from side a to side b.
The light that pass through the holes between each forms, create the path to follow from dark to bright side.
Side B
Interior Architecture, University of Indonesia Published 2014