ComplexCity

From http://www.leejangsub.com/

This project is an exploration to find a concealed aesthetic by using the pattern formed by the roads of the city which have been growing and evolving randomly through time, thus composing the complex configuration we experience today. I perceive the city's patterns as living creatures that I recompose to form an urban image.


Seoul

Rome

Paris

Moscow

I think these are beautiful images and remind me of the pedestrian and road network diagrams I have done in my BLoackout series. Click the Blackout label for more information.

The Blackout Movement

Pedestrian/cycle network



Road network

The Blackout Bus

This plan represents the most accessible places in a town. The red and purple areas represents the destinations and the green line the bus route. The line increases in thickness the more bus routes travel along that section. A destination that has a thin line next/through it is less accessible (has fewer buses going past) than destinations with thicker lines (more buses going past).

The Blackout

Recently I have been experimenting with a new graphic style to allow the message the plan is trying to convey more legible and easier to 'spot'. This has involved using colours of various brightness on top of a dark base. The paths or spaces at the top of the hierarchy are assigned the brightest (more contrasting with black) colours, with them getting gradually darker the further down the hierarchy you go. This results in a plan where the most important elements contrast and stick out from the dark background, and the less important elements almost indistinguishable from it.

Below the most used/public green spaces are in the brightest with the lesser/more privatised spaces getting gradually darker. This plan not only shows where the most used spaces are and where there is a lack of greenspace, but also how the spaces connect with each other and which spaces need to be improved/expanded to create a stronger green network.

Below the technique allows you to easily identify the movement hierarchy of a town and the 'voids' of space where new connections are needed.