(DE)SIGNING THE CITY: Learning from Leith Walk

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Learning from Leith Walk
(DE)SIGNING THE CITY:

(de)signing the city: Leith Walk, Edinburgh (2010)

Look at the footprint, it will tell you what the project is about.

    THE WHOLE & THE PART
    The thesis is long horizontal strip (20 metres)
    The text follows the length of Leith Walk (1600 metres)
    The document uses a one mile long photograph as a primary visual source around which the discussion is structured.

    The long image initiates a visual analysis in three stages.
    1. ORIGNAL:             The street itself.
    2. OBLITERATED:    The street itself with all signs obliterated.
    3. SIGN LAYER:        The signs themselves alone.

SAME IMAGE SHOWN VERTICALLY

A one mile long photograph
LEITH WALK SIGN SURFACE

Over 400 photpgraphs of the Leith Walk were stitched together to form the 1 mile (1600 metres) photo.
This formed the primary visual source for the project.
An innovative open source visual algorhythm was used to form a vast gigapixel image.

Exhibition Panel showing 5 different photographic scanning techniques applied to Leith Walk, Edinburgh.

Exhibition at the GAP Gallery, Architecture Building, Chambers Street, University of Edinburgh.

Urban Research Project
EDINBURGH 2010
Selected Pages

    Frontispiece
    This frontispiece employs a visual structure to make threaded connections in the thesis.
    6 primary theoretical sources form a visual structure to explore possible connections linking the materials.
    The flow diagarm describes methodology in the physical form of the project, an interlinked visual discussion.