To further develop my “Formulate” project. I decided to follow two different approaches.
First, I decided to use the information collected a week ago and present it as a different and unexpected way to know the city. For me, it was interesting to show not only the shapes that come out of a city’s grid but also the way they are drawn out and the atmosphere they are created in. That is why in the following videos, in addition to the process of “drawing”, the backdrop sounds are crucial to identify the essence of the city presented.
On the other hand, I decided to push to the limit the method I had developed las week, but this time with special focus on three key elements: the origin (and final destination), the scale of the map and the duration of the route suggested by google:
Taking these aspects into account, I repeated last week’s process (drawing simple shapes taking London, Mexico City and New York City as background) but this time with little but significant changes:
- This time always parting from a specific location each time: The British Museum for London, The Templo Mayor Museum for Mexico City and The Metropolitan Museum of Art for New York City. All three of them being museums and being located in a fairly central area of each city.
- Using 4 strictly geometric shapes with the same edge-length between nodes (triangle, square, pentagon, hexagon).
- Drawing those 4 shapes with routes by foot, by bike and by car taken from google.
- Repeating those four drawings increasing the scale each time (20m, 50m, 100m, 200m, 500m and 1000m).
After this, I got the following data bank:
Then, taking that same other, I decided to take the duration time in minutes of each one of the routes and putting it into Excel:
And finally, I filled each of the cells with a colour, according to different parameters, in order to create colour patterns and, as a result, graphic pieces generated with Excel in combination for google maps.
In this way, the combined subvertion of Google Maps and Excel in addition of functioning as a new drawing tool, can help to distinguish the differences in time mobility within each city and compared to each other in a new and unexplored way.