With more than 20 times more dwelling per meter square than the average in metro Sydney it can be claustrophobic. This is one of the reasons for having one of the highest proportion of people living alone in Darlinghurst. With the majority aged between 20 and 34, and a high percentage of people 65 and over. Once again the Architecture is attracting or influencing specific lifestyles.
Congestion doesn't end with the buildings. With major roads running through the heartof the site and a large exhaust stack pumping co2 out from the eastern distributor, it's all a bit hazy as to whether people are slowly choking to death in their homes.
Darlinghurst began as one of Sydney's finest residential address,
now the lanes and back allies emitt an eerie insecurity especially after dark.
The Architecture of the site lends itself to this atmosphere,
with tall narrow lane ways that are lacking sufficient lighting.
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three images: there is a distinct focus for each of the images which read together as a whole. The composition of each, by their nature, gives a sense of exaggerated scale, perhaps something inhuman about how you see the site. The restricted colour/effects palette of each gives them a separate sense of how the site is interpreted, however the 2nd and 3rd montages (emissions + finest redential) seem more successful than the 1st (youth population). The whole set however works together quite well with their consistancy in graphic style.
representation: the set of images relies heavily on the photographs, in the sense that manipulation has not gone beyond simply scaling/resizing/filtering the images. The addition of superimposed shadows of figures does not add significantly to the message conveyed in each one; instead it may have been possible to leave them out all together.
textures: the 36 textures demonstrate a particular attention to surfaces, which mainly capture a close range of scale. There was not much, if any manipulation to them. The production of an addition 3dsmax rendering was a brilliant idea that allowed you to show the textures as a collection, their relationships to each other and their tendancy or lack of tendancy to tile.
text: the short captions you have chosen work well with the images and their messages. The comment was already made in class that they could have been more subtle or ambiguous to open up different readings of the images. The change to the youthful population caption to include the percentile statistic was a good choice since it widened the scale of your analytical approach.
Overall the approach to the site and its life/lives is, in whole, numerical with the population, qualitative with the residential, and projective with the emissions. The minor issues of whether the images stitch together accurately is actually insignificant since the 3 images as a set make a larger comment.
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