Showing posts with label Amira Al Dakroury. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amira Al Dakroury. Show all posts

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Amira Al Dakroury, The passages in souq waqif


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Then in my process of approaching the project. i narrowed down my choices of words and concepts in to ( lines, rough textures and stacking ) as they are the most dominant features of the place.

My first draft: i used for the background an image from the ones i have captured of the place that has the texture of the weathered wood and then i applied other textures by layering them on top of each other ( to achieve the concept of stacking ) and then i added some linear shapes that i have found in my images to give that feeling of lines. For the color scheme i decided to use the main color of the passages (at night) which is the color brown ! and then i decided to go along with the tents and shades of the brown and apply it in all the composition. 

Problems: its too brown and its poor in colors and varieties the passages are mostly known for. it was too personal in a way ( more like an art piece ) it wasn't communicating well specially with the idea of linear, and true the composition elements are images that was taken there, but still it didnt bring out the identity of the place ( the color, pattern and type)


Second Draft: 

i was trying to work with layering the textures but in this time i decided to keep the textures with their own color ( since the passages are unpolished and they are old i decided to keep them natural ) but this time i decided to add a passage as an icon to the place am trying to show. as for the third word (linear) i decided to add a strip of an image of a wall with the paint draped. 

Problems: It still didnt communicate the idea of stacking and cramping


Third Draft:

So i decided to continue with my second draft. I was interested on the strips idea and i decided to make that as my stacking concept ( in placing them beside each other ) and to kind of give the feeling of that place ( chaos, stacked and everything is close to each other ) and by that i could use my textures and also the type ( shops signs ) to be my stripes elements. i placed them instead of the passages walls and i lowered the passage's opacity so that some of the stripes endings could work as a shadow to emphasize depth. The color are natural. i decided to show it this way because my place is rich of colors that work well together and thats my space's identity! 


Amira Al Dakroury, The passages in souq waqif