On a chillen Saturday afternoon, while making melody on the piano with my humming bird friends that hang around my “music room”, my elder brother walks in determined to say something. Obviously, he had been listening to me play from the main house and he says, do you know some of the best hit songs have the same 4 chords played repetitively throughout the song. All they do is vary the rhythm, the pattern, the tempo but it’s the same old 4 chords. ”
And just like that I had that Aha moment this week while designing my studio project. It’s all about the pattern. The pattern makes the melody so beautiful you can’t help but sing along or in this case in architecture, to STARE at.
Take me back to Barcelona, Spain. My, oh my, I just kept taking photos of the patterns on the buildings.
Let’s have a look,
Location: The Streets of Barcelona
Photography: Naomi Wangari
Sketches : Naomi Wangari
Ground Patterns
The floral pattern
Canopy Patterns
The 3D Zigzag Line
Building Patterns
The Basket weave
Do you remember the brick game we use to play on the 90s Nintendo game boy?
The Brick Game
The grid pattern + The brick game
The Horizontal line
The Brick Pattern
Thank you for stopping by. Till we meet again.
Love,
Swanky_tecture.
Original Feature:
https://swankytecture.wordpress.com/2017/06/02/patterns-that-make-the-best-melodies/
