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Worlds Worst Urban Spaces: Rozzol Melara,Trieste

By Worlds Worst Urban

Sol has uploaded some great images to our Flickr Group for the World Worst Urban Places and Spaces book. The photographs focus on the Rozzol Melara settlement in Trieste, Italy, taken in 2004 while Sol was researching is final these project entitled ’31 Stories’.

In Sol’s words:

The complex consists of a squared array. Adjacent blocks are connected by a small bridge. It’s all about concrete. By entering the Complex you instantly feel uncomfortable. I have hardly had these in any other building. But this is a piece of real brutalist architecture. Wide and dark corridors where the residents even take their dogs for a walk, lots of echoing sounds, and yes on one of the pictures you can actually see a car driving inside the house, there’s a ramp leading to the higher floors. Climbing up complex stairways, the structure really is a maze! A place definitely not to live in and as a place still very fascinating and disturbing.

The images do portray an unnerving place, it almost goes without saying that if the development was in the United Kingdom it would of probably been listed by now.

You can view the rest of Sol’s pictures direct via our Flickr group, while your there upload your own images to appear in the forthcoming reader created book on the Worlds Worst Urban Places and Spaces.

An archive of all the submissions so far is on the companion Worlds Worst Urban Blog.

Worlds Worst Urban Spaces: Rozzol Melara,Trieste

By Worlds Worst Urban

Sol has uploaded some great images to our Flickr Group for the World Worst Urban Places and Spaces book. The photographs focus on the Rozzol Melara settlement in Trieste, Italy, taken in 2004 while Sol was researching is final these project entitled ’31 Stories’.

In Sol’s words:

The complex consists of a squared array. Adjacent blocks are connected by a small bridge. It’s all about concrete. By entering the Complex you instantly feel uncomfortable. I have hardly had these in any other building. But this is a piece of real brutalist architecture. Wide and dark corridors where the residents even take their dogs for a walk, lots of echoing sounds, and yes on one of the pictures you can actually see a car driving inside the house, there’s a ramp leading to the higher floors. Climbing up complex stairways, the structure really is a maze! A place definitely not to live in and as a place still very fascinating and disturbing.

The images do portray an unnerving place, it almost goes without saying that if the development was in the United Kingdom it would of probably been listed by now.

You can view the rest of Sol’s pictures direct via our Flickr group, while your there upload your own images to appear in the forthcoming reader created book on the Worlds Worst Urban Places and Spaces.

An archive of all the submissions so far is on the companion Worlds Worst Urban Blog.

SketchUp Styles – Drawing the City

By SketchUp


Google’s SketchUp Pro version 6 includes the ability to visualise your 3D models using various ‘Styles’, as the guide to the new features explains –

“Styles are collections of display settings, including new options like Watermarks and Sketchy Effects, saved in the new Styles palette. You can create, save, and organize Styles as well as share Styles with others. With a single click, you can quickly apply a style to any model by selecting it from the new Styles window”

The use of Styles provides a unique way to visualise models within SketchUp, albeit with a slight performance hit. The 4 minute movie below provides a real-time flythrough of a city created by Tsa on the 3D Warehouse cycling through variety of style modes.

Note the effectiveness of the ‘sketchy’ feature as well as the ‘blueprint’ and ‘tracing paper’ effects:

Music by BX748

The ability to view a city in what is almost a hand drawn mode provides a valuable way to present designs and communicate the cityscape.

Although the styles feature is only available in the ‘pro’ version of SketchUp you can download a fully functional version from the SketchUp site which allows a full 8 hours of use.

Download the city used in the movie from the 3D Warehouse.

Geographic Data in Second Life

By Data Visualisation, ESRI, GIS, Importing into Second Life, Second Life

Now we have a route from ESRI’s ArcMap into Second Life it opens up all sorts of possibilities for importing geographical data into an environment that is ripe for public participation and collaboration type outreach activities.

The movie below details various population data sets displayed per London Borough, it is still beta but we think it shows potential:


Music by New Inception

If you have Second Life installed you can visit us by clicking here – you will get a red arrow pointing skywards, simply fly up to our section of Second Nature island.

If you do not have Second Life then we thoroughly recommend downloading and popping by for a visit.

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