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CASTIGLION FIORENTINO
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PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY
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CONSTELLATION NARRATIVE
WORK CITED COCKER, EMMA. YES OF THE NO. SITE GALLERY, 2016. LEATHERBARROW, DAVID. UNCOMMON GROUND: ARCHITECTURE,TECHONOLOGY,AND TOPOGRAPHY. MIT. 2002
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WALLKING NARRATIVE IN CASTIGLION FIORENTINO I am really interested in various paving pattern in Castglion Florentino. I think it is aesthetically unique and functionally performs well. For example, the paving on the hill side is permeable square pattern that help to infiltrate rain water and to prevent pavement slipping at the same time. During my first walking algorithm, I ended up going up to the public parking lot. I found so many cracks on asphalt and they all looked different. Some cracks are circular or triangular. I wasn’t expected cracks on asphalt but I started to see them as pattern to continue my walking experience. One of the challenge was when to follow another crack and how. When the crack I followed is stopped at some point, my first attempt was to follow other cracks around it. However, this didn’t work well because my intention was involved. Second attempt was to follow the most beaten track by people. I think it worked well because I drifted as result of outside forces, which were people.
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READING NARRATIVE The author, Leatherbarrow, talks about four distances: horizon, vertical, geological and technological. In Castglion Florentino, i found the examples of horizon and vertical distances. The most of houses in the town are two or three stories. They do not have enough space to have their own garden. However, interestingly, every house has hanging garden in their window or stairway. Ivy or grape is growing from ground to wall, extending to neighborhood. The vertical distance in this town is raised to window level and the horizon for this case becomes the sky and cloud. In terms of space, this town seems to distinguish from larger landscape. However, in terms of large scale, the town (it used to be marsh) is part of larger landscape within the same topography. Moreover, the agriculture field extends into larger landscape of mountain.
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WALLKING NARRATIVE IN PARIS, FRANCE After walking algorithm in Paris, I realized that their drain system is not working properly based on what I saw on the street. Before we arrived in Paris, there was a rain. Thus, I could see trace of rain. The rain water was backing up from street drains and there were pools of water on the street. Also, some of driveway and sidewalk are overlapped with new paving to repair cracked pavement by weather condition. I could see different color and texture of the mix of old and new paving layers. Before I started walking exercise in Paris, I personally thought there wouldn’t have various paving patterns in Paris because the city is highly urbanized like Los Angeles. Nevertheless, I saw the different type of paving materials during the walk. For example, they use 45 degree stack bond with contrasting triangle cut inlays with header on their driveway or walkway to their entrance. Also, they use different paving pattern to distinguish city bike rack’s space and road. During the walk, i often saw the same marks on the street while walking. I couldn’t figure out what the marks were made by until I carefully looked at a motorcycle parked in front of Université Paris-Dauphine. The marks were created by motorcycle kickstands. From that, I assume that there is no exact motorcycle parking space in Paris and motorcycle users tend to park on the sidewalk.
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WALLKING ALGORTIHM inizi chiedersi da un’area residenziale (Start wondering from residential area) Your eyes are downward instead of looking straight Follow paving pattern and crack, taking photos at the same scale. If you confront to a track that led to nowhere, start observe surrounding Drift to the most beaten track by people Keep wondering until you find a public place.
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READING NARRATIVE In case of Paris, the city geologically built around river Seine. In terms of large scale, vertical distance can be measured by architecture building near the river. However, the horizontal distance can be measured by the existing landscape. The diagram illustrates how urban space or park near river is designed and how the horizontal and vertical distances help to create different special experience. In terms of vertical distance, there is a raised terrace like structure near the Seine. This structure helps people provide different views of urban landscape. At the different elevation, horizon of vision changes from sky to river.
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In Paris, there are a lot of activities going on near the river such as art installation, international food festival, and sports and so on. These cultural aspects in public realm help to expand the boundaries of landscape.
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WALLKING ALGORTIHM inizi chiedersi da un’area residenziale
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(Start wondering from residential area) Your eyes are downward instead of looking straight Follow paving pattern and crack, taking photos at the same scale. If you confront to a track that led to nowhere, start observe surrounding Drift to the most beaten track by people Keep wondering until you find a public place.
WALLKING NARRATIVE IN MUNICH, GERMANY From my third walking algorithm experience in Munich, Germany, Munich’s cycling networks is well established as compared to other cities: Castiglion Fiorentino and Paris. The bicycle lanes are not really segregated form pedestrian paths but different paving materials or mark on the paving help people to distinguish between pedestrian paths and bicycle road. There were not many variation of paving pattern. I saw the gray cobble stone paving pattern that can be found in Italy as well. I started to refer back to Cocker text; “to catch the drift is … to become attuned to what is said in what remains unsaid” and “focus on what is revealed from a beaten track”. The paving patterns in Munich are pretty similar to Italy. However, one thing I realized that grass or mosses are growing between paving stones and fallen deciduous leaves are filling the gap between pavings on the street. These are underlying that most of street tresses in Munich are deciduous trees, showing transition of season. For example, street tresses in Castiglion Fiorentino such as Italian cypress and umbrella pine are more likely to be evergreen. In their culture, Italians tend to use Italian cypress to welcome visitors. In order to do that, they prefer to have evergreen tress than deciduous trees. Moreover, from my observation in Munich, brick walls, stone foundations of buildings, even color of buildings and roof create the warmth feeling and it harmonizes well with fall colors in terms of visual impact. of paving materials during the walk. For example, they use 45 degree stack bond with contrasting triangle cut inlays with header on their driveway or walkway to their entrance. Also, they use different paving pattern to distinguish city bike rack’s space and road.
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READING NARRATIVE English garden in Munich, has very subtle change of vertical distance. However, the vertical distance changes as the depth of water increase. However, It still provides different experience and interaction between people and landscape. Specifically, at the low body of water, people can actually be in the water or closed to the river. Interestingly, urban beach can be found in urban park in Munich. In terms of horizontal distance, I see the public space near the river as an extension of landscape. Personally I think landscape does not necessary to limit into green space. For example, In Sienna, Piazza del campo is considered as landscape even though there are no plants and trees. It is about how people occupy the space. In Paris, there are a lot of activities going on near the river such as art installation, international food festival, and sports and so on. These cultural aspects in public realm help to expand the boundaries of landscape.
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CONSTELLATION NARRATIVE “To catch the drift is… to become attuned to what is said in what remains unsaid” (Cocker,2016) Wandering has different meanings depending on what motivates the action. In routine life, walking is a simple act of lifting one foot and putting it on the other. While walking, we see so many things but overlook trivial moments. For exmaple, we walk and step on the same paths everyday;however, not everyone really pay attention to the pattern on the paving. My approch for walking algorithm focused on what is revealed from a beaten track. I think that different paving patterns and cracks on urban surface are part of the evolution of a city and reveal its culture and history. For example, Garibaldi square in Castiglion Fiorentino have various marks on the asphalt. It is because there are a lot of activities at the place such as Friday Market and Bike competition etc. Also, in Pairs, i could find the speicfiic mark by motorcycle kickstands. From that, I assume that there is no exact motorcycle parking space in Paris and motorcycle users tend to park on the sidewalk. Furthermore, each city uses median in different ways. I found that median strips in Munich function as bicycle parking lot. It was interesting to compare to other cities like Paris. The median in Paris is utilized as parking space. However, there is no mideian in Castiglion Fiorentino;however, i noticed that there is circular space at every intersaction of the main road in Italy. There is a sculpture within the circular space in Castiglion Fiorentino. I couldn’t figure out what is the meaning of sculpture. I think it will be related to the city. Conversely, While I am doing this walking algorithm, I could understand each city better and analysis different ways. To b specific, people have their own ways of learning. Sometimes it is good to research about a place before you visit. There is a quote by Lao Tzu, “A smart traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving”. I strongly agree with this quote. When I visit each country; I did not really research about a place because I like to discover something unexpected. I expose myself into the city and have my eyes wide open and pay attention to everything because you can get to know a city by its people, its building, its food, and so on. And if I want to learn more about the place, then I start doing research. Walking algorithm exercise provides me different perspective to see the city.
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