visualization 2 portfolio

Jenna Sullivan Shannon McClain Spring 2022

Indre By, Copenhagen

Visualization 2 Portfolio

Table of Contents

Callowhill Philadelphia.............................................................4-19

Researching Place...................................................................................4-5 Sketching Callowhill...............................................................................6-7 Virtual Collage........................................................................................8-9 Understanding Place..........................................................................10-11 Abstracting Place................................................................................12-13 Dialectogram.......................................................................................14-15 Mapping...............................................................................................16-17 Super Collage......................................................................................18-19

Spring Break ............................................................................20-21

Dear Data............................................................................................20-21

Indre By, Copenhagen/Old City, Philadelphia.....................22-25

Site Synthesis......................................................................................22-23 Site Mapping........................................................................................24-25

Callowhill, Philadelphia Researching Place

This project focused on researching the neighborhood of Callowhill in Philadelphia and taking out the important things from it. This was the first booklet made for the semester and it was able to be changed as the semester went on. The three concept words that were chosen for this neighborhood were transformed, lively, and growing. Additionally, a thesis statement also had to be written to cover the main things about the neighborhood. The main focus for the entirety of the project was mostly the transformed concept since the neighborhood was known for being industrial, but is now turning more modern. This project taught me simple in design skills, research skills, and how to find history behind a neighborhood in Philadelphia as long as providing a strong focusing point for the rest of the projects.

Sketching Callowhill

The object of this project was the sketch abstractly to en-capsule the feel of Callowhill rather than the way it looks. At first it was difficult to think abstractly as it was personally uncommon to do, but with more tries the sketches became more and more abstract. These sketches were then able to be incorporated into the next collage.

Doing this taught skills with thinking abstractly and helped learn more about the neighborhood that was being studied for the first half of the semester.

Virtual Collage For this project two collages had to be created representing Callowhill in both plan and elevation form. I chose to focus on my three concept words to represent something through these collages. This gave me knowledge on how to use Photoshop, how to relate images together, and how to use the space of the page correctly.

This collage represented mostly the transformation within the neighborhood with the old Callowhill being in the mirror and the new Callowhill being in the background. It also utilizes bight colors and lights to represent its newfound liveliness.

Callowhill Color Palette

This collage also represents transformation within Callowhill as the foreground shows the new rail park and the community space it provides while the background shows the old Callowhill and how bare and cold it looks while still all being connected.

Understanding Place

Again for this project, two collages were created to make more iterations and provide more of an understanding for Callowhill Philadelphia. These also had to be in plan and elevation. It was limited to more of photos we took ourselves and these collages were done after physically visiting the site this time.

This collage is in the shape of a modern skyscraper yet made up of some of the old and new things in the neighborhood.

This collage shows the “old” callowhill as what is seen on the top, while the “new” callowhill is seen on the bottom.

Abstracting Place

This project was about creating an abstract drawing that represents the ideas behind the neighborhood of Callowhill, without making anything too literal.

These drawings had to be digital or hand drawn and beautifully created into a comprehensive drawings. This taught me to think abstractly and to use different thing to represent different ideas. The drawings on the top depicts the old versus the new callowhill with the use of bright and dull colors and different shape types. The bottom photo represents the movement throughout Callowhill and how one experiences it as they walk through. I used freely drawn lines to show this along with different shapes to represent landmarks.

Dialectogram The goal of creating the dialectograms was to convey different aspects of the space of each site with different symbols or vignettes. For the dialectogram of Search Hall, there was many arrows and symbols sued to show movement of people, noise and where the tables are set up. For the dialectogram of Callowhill, there were vignettes used of different notable areas that were visited along with different landmarks that were notices with the focus of this being the rail-park itself.

Class Dialectogram of Search Hall

Dialectogram of Callowhill

Mapping

For the mappings, the neighborhood of Callowhill as well as the rail park had to be represented through a map of the area in basically any way chose.

The important things about the area had to be chosen to be represented in the mappings such as green space, public vs private buildings, and noise. This project sharpened Photoshop skills and introduced the class to illustrator.

Super Collage

The super collage was the final project for this set of research. This was the final collage representing Callowhill and the Rail Park. This project lasted for a few weeks and many different iterations of what finally became the collage to the left. This is where the class applied all the skills they had learned up to this point in the class to create a visually appealing, yet visually informative collage.

The class was allowed to use pieces of their old projects to come to the final collage. I chose to use a previous collage, rail park mapping, and some additional things. The collage mostly represents the transformation of Callowhill through time using the arrow at the top to visually show a timeline as well as photos going from old to new.

Spring Break Dear Data

This was a project done over spring break to keep the creativity flowing. There was complete freedom to record anything measurable for this project in which I chose times that I looked outside. This data was then made into a mini post card with a key and we got to create our own graphic of how to represent this data visually.

Indre By, Copenhagen/Old City, Philadelphia Site Synthesis

This was the start of a new project which also analyzed a neighborhood in Philadelphia along with a relating neighborhood in Copenhagen. For studying the site, we had to find information on the two neighborhoods and come up with three concept words along with similarities and differences between the two. We also had to made sketches to represent these words.

Site Mapping

For my part in this project, I focused mostly on studying Indre By Copenhagen, therefore I creating the mapping of Copenhagen. I include things that wold overlap between the two neighborhoods such as foot traffic, water areas, and tourist attractions. This was the final project to show off the skills that we had learned this semester by creating an appealing map that also has a meaning behind its symbols.

Jenna Sullivan Visualization 2 Shannon McClain