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Pnyx public planning portal | Athens, Greece | Unit 21 | 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awarded Distinction for Design \ufeff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Learning from Raphael\u2019s School Of Athens<\/strong>
The project\u2019s point of departure began with an investigation into Raphael\u2019s Fresco; The School of Athens. Commissioned by Pope Julius II to decorate the walls of his private library within the Vatican. Painted between 1509 & 1511 it represents the gathering of the philosophers of the ancient world around the central figures of Plato & Aristotle. The piece can be considered as a Renaissance installation in which the walls ceiling and floor contributed to the environment the painter created for his patron. The four Fresco\u2019s that cover the walls reflects the subjects that sit beneath within the private library, dividing and categorizing the knowledge into fragments. Although sited in Italy the painting is very much rooted in Athens, using
Architecture within the city as framing devices to set up a narration of western thought, debate and exchange. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I deduced 3 points & characteristics from this initial investigation:

1<\/strong> The fictional Romanized interior in which great philosophers from different times sat side by side has the ability to collapse time into one architectural scene.

2<\/strong> Rules such as Euclidean Geometry can be applied to a two dimensional plane. However they can only be proven in three dimensions. These proof\u2019s include Platonic and Archimedean solids. Therefore an exchange between 2D & 3D generates \u2018proof\u2019 and ultimately \u2018truth\u2019.

3<\/strong> Building these solids in three dimensional space re quires the construction of peripheral & sacrificial geometries. A set of rules orbits the object in focus and describes its manifestation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With this in mind I set out to find a contemporary lens of viewing the city of Athens. Instagram\u2019s method of collecting and presenting images is inherently time based and collapses a time-line into a 2D feed of information. I began by extracting an hour\u2019s worth of top Instagram photos with the hash-tag \u2018Athens\u2019. A process of deduction and fragmentation began, which manifested in a series of collaged pieces of city that are built around that length of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photogrammetry<\/strong>
Inputting the images into Photogrammetry software removes layers of authorship and intervention by the user, creating a pure translation between the picture plane and three dimensional space. Photogrammetric processing of digital images generates 3D spatial data and digital geometry. In an attempt to conform to the rules of the image the algorithm bridges meshes, forming spatial accidents and unforeseen juxtapositions. This continual fragmentation, deconstruction and reconstruction builds new territories between the perceived. A process of refinement began by testing the tool\u2019s through controlled digital environments, rendering & physical models in an attempt to understand this new working method, one which would be taken towards an architectural proposition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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