visual analysis

Analysis is the process of breaking a complex
topic or substance into smaller parts to gain
a better understanding of it.

Visual Analysis
is the method to interpret
information and surroundings from
visible messages reaching the eye.

How can you analyze an urban space ?

You can analyze it by:
1. Visiting the urban space
2. Studying visual material:
* technical drawings
* perspectives
* Via photos, videos
3. Reading about it

It is a trial to understand the visual messages ,
which the viewer receives from the urban
environment.
Your design will send some messages also.

Analyze the sense generated from the visual
messages of urban physical components.
To recognize the cultural content in which the
production of urban form and meaning
associated with the formation.

We demonstrate the procedure used to
analyze the form, function and significance of
the urban space as an element within a given
urban context.
In order to appraise the urban status we
experience .

The procedures:
1.Understand Urban context : time “history” and
place “location”
2.Morphological analysis : plans, sections “ axis,
distance, height, 2d shape , …”
3.3d form analysis ,elevations, “proportion,
symmetry, balance, details, …”
4. Serial vision study
5. Urban experience “urban sense, identity, style”

The designed space is the remaining lands of the city in
front of the Representatives House in Rome.
It did not have a specific form with multi-levels, and the
size is very large compared to the small existing building.
Urban
designer is
Michelangelo

Michelangelo has
divided the available
land into 2 parts :
1. The space against the
building
2. another preliminary
space connect the place
with the rest parts of the
city.

Give a greater sense to the
small building than its real
size through conformation of
the urban space unity in 2
ways:
First:
by giving it a rectangular
shape with oblique sides.
Second:
By drawing on the floor an
oval shape with curved lines
that overlapping with one
center.

The designer put a statue in the middle of the piazza
in order to help the viewer to determine the space
center and a sense of its size without effort.

The designer took advantage of the difference
in the level of the piazza above street level and
made a stepped ramp to achieve :

1. The horizontal axis of the
slope is located on the axis
of the building
2. Climb to the top has
meaning and gives a sense
of seniority and the
importance of the building.
3. Visitor sees the building of
the first degree in the slope,
and this feature is difficult to
achieve in the ordinary
staircase where visitor can
not see the building from the
first level.

Use of the long axis of the
space in the direction of the
building and the Identical
facade on one axis passes the
main door of the building,
highlights its excellency.

The slant sides of stepped ramps on the main
axis emphasis exaggeration in the sense of
the building existence, despite its small size .

The designer put a huge fountain down the ladder
increases the sense of the enormity of the space
and emphasizes the importance of the building.

In order to
deceiving the
viewer who can
not compare
between the huge
size of the
fountain and
the small size of
the building
Because the
designer made
the entry through
the two ladder to
the top of the
fountain to
separate it
visually.

Taj Mahal is one of the strongest architectural examples,
because it has a distinctive shape and strong composition.
The Taj Mahal is a mausoleum for Shah Jahan the favorite
wife of "Mumtaz Mahal"
The Emperor
Mumtaz Mahal
(January 5, 1592 – January 31, 1666)
Queen
Shah Jahan
(April, 1593 - June 17, 1631)

(Gardens of Paradise)
The rectangular gardens

The long axis from the main gate to reach
the building allow people to understand
the whole image of the place.
Also, it highlights the greatness meaning

When you connect the lines between the four minarets, you’ll
find that the tops of the main dome is almost beyond these
limits, such as the Spirit which is barely graduated from the
limits of the body to ascend to sky

Four detached minarets
• look like palace guards
• each one is sectioned by three
balconies with an umbrella create
shadows and interest details
• Enhance the symmetry of the
building and form a visual framework

Since the building is a tomb, It should reflect the purity and dread,
and the death fact .
These meanings should be reflected on the external appearance
and interior design.
The building and its surroundings appear as a great ship going in a
mighty parade in the mysterious world

White marble used in the covering of the building
makes it seem as if it is a Palace in Paradise

Like a dream or Sinbad movie and fairy tale

A water carpet is furnished in honor of reception of pure
spirits, is not allowed for ordinary people

The Reflection Of Taj Mahal On the Water as if it
is a reflection in the other world.

The only built element colored with
white

No direct clear entrances, as mentioned before it is
not for regular people

A huge scale of the building compared to human scale
make the visitor recognize how this place is so great

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