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Figures of the Picturesque

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Student John Krenshaw Clayson
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Unit UG2
Year 2

The project is for a versatile market area that facilitates both formal and informal market vendors as well as aiding urban mobility in Amman. It uses convolutional neural networks to replicate drawn figures of nature, and to begin an exploration into the translation between analogue and digital tools.


The scheme acts as a criticism of the way nature manifests in modern cities, especially in the West where plants are often experienced as objects or as the picturesque. This is emphasised in Western planning through its concern with vistas, a characteristic not present in Arabic planning and perhaps evidential in arguing for the inherent biophilic qualities of Arabic planning. Through imitating forms of Arabic planning, an inherently immersive and spatial condition that sits between the object and the picturesque is created.

Subverting the Folly

Axonometric drawing posing how the project subverts the image of the picturesque folly in the landscape, creating a natural figure in the cityscape of Amman.

Zoomed Section

Showing the informal market area to be inhabited by local businesses.

Section

Showing that via a single level platform the scheme offers a route that increases urban mobility between the two districts.

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