Jan 10, 2013

Window Study 1

As I have ventured to different parts of Malawi and interacted with different villages I have come to notice subtle differences in each village.

One of these is in the windows.  I wrote about this before but now I am beginning to do visual analysis of each of these windows.

As explained in the previous post about how the windows are made and constructed there is no need for me to re-iterate.

Here is the first of the window analyses of a Church in the central region.  Luckily I caught it on a day with quite soft light but powerful enough to create spectacular effects on the interior.


Window



Window Analysis : Step 1 - Overall Impression



Window Analysis : Step 2 - Breakdown of Whole into Part



Window Analysis : Step 3 - Breakdown of Parts into Sub-Parts



Window Analysis : Step 4 - Breakdown of Sub-part into Solid/Void



Window Analysis : Step 5 - Repetition of Solid/Void to create Sub-part
Repetition of Sub-part to create Part





Interior Lighting Effects from Repeated Sub-Parts

The relationship of Solid/Void creates a pattern in the window.  Although this pattern at first seems obvious there are sub-patterns and also different ways to arrange the Sub-Parts to create different patterns, rather than the obvious.