My pyschogeographicultural concept collage stemmed out of the reading that I chose titled; Planning Sustainable and Livable Cities in Nigeria written by Kadiri Kabir O. Throughout this reading cities were compared and described as a living organism for example, "Cities are complex and dynamic places of contradiction that have been compared to living organisms." This visual relation developed further as I began to imagine the idea of cities being a living breathing thing; dissecting the diagrams of Anam New City brought out the graphic visualization that correlated with the idea behind the analogy. Cities have many parts that work together to make a working whole; just as similar to a human body that has many cells and organs that together make a body.
As landscape architects we analyze and put sites under the microscope; my collage visually shows an abstract idea of the diagrams from Anam New City being magnified along with the different textures and parts that make it a living entity.
WOW. This is an excellent glimpse at the potential line of thinking you're following has to offer your project development. The notion that patterns and processes of landscape interventions into the Anam Masterplan could be scalable and propagate according to biological principles is very exciting. I'm excited by the formal opportunities with a framework built around organic structures, and I'll encourage you to explore precedents that include bio-mimicry and other natural form giving codes. And it would be worth looking at ways to index the forms derived from the various existing terrain and settlement patterns. You could start building a glossary of elements from existing conditions and modify each with a particular biological principle from your readings...
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