DAISY AMES

I am looking to analyze a variety of cities in order to compare their scalar differences, figure-ground relationships and their means of transporation. GIS (Geographical Information Services) is not complying, so if anyone out there has a major city, or town in any vector-based format that I can use for this comparison I would greatly appreciate it. You can email me at: info at daisyames dot com

I am looking for a wide range of cities and towns… so anything from Mexico City to a small African village would be useful. Thank you! 

I made these sequence of collages to capture the varying lifestyles that the typical businessman in Stamford, CT transitions through on a daily basis. This is all in part to capture the inherent culture of Stamford, which we are redesigning/re-evaluating for our studio project this year. The first image is the bustling commute from New York City, followed by an image of the regimented corporate environment in Stamford. Then, the next image represents the family life in the suburbs juxtaposed to the life of indulgence after hours. Below these images is a sequence of abstractions from these collages that could possibly be used to inform our design in some way. Right now these ideas are very indirect and uncalculated and I am enjoying this approach for once. 

“Analysis allows us to have “holy shit” moments… to realize something we cannot see and to be able to go somewhere with it.” 

- Peter Eisenman during third year studio critique September 17th, 2010