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HOMELAND MINIATURES:A Digital Collective Travelbook
UOU - University of Universities2020-2021 Spring Semester
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Enric Alonso Banegas | Esperanza Gil Díaz Francisco Morcillo Cascales | Gabor Daniela Larisa
Hamarita Sahota | Harry KempHeather Knights | Krasi Yulianova Patnikova
Laura-Adina Stupariu | Leo MuttonManuel Penalva Cases | María González Lozano
María Ponce Garrido | Michaela HickeryMohammad Gerami | Scilla Wihlborg
Tristan Sanchez | Vanessa Garcia Calzadilla
HOMELAND MINIATURES:A Digital Collective Travelbook
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In architectural education, one of the most common and universal representation technique is central perspective which was discovered during Renaissance period. The rational world that Renaissance offered us helps to create a universal language in the field of architecture and enables to represent our thoughts
on space so as to create a dialog between ourselves and others. On the other hand, some other techniques like iconography or miniature drawing reflects another understanding of the world and space
per se that could be a new way of representation in our era.
The understanding of perspective in miniature drawing is different from the European Renaissance painting tradition. The scene depicted usually includes different time periods and spaces in one picture. Thus, we may say that miniature drawing is a multi-layered representation. Miniatures are always a part of book, not like a standalone work of art and because of that they are closely related with the context of the
book they were included in.
In our “Homeland Miniatures: A Collective Digital Travelbook” workshop, we made a collective travelbook that represents different cities/countries through miniature drawings of those homelands. Each student
drew a miniature drawing of his/her homeland or the city where he/she is living at that moment and write a short reflection paragraph that is related with his/her drawing. By putting all these drawings together, we
created our collective digital travelbook at the end of the workshop..
The city of Alicante is known for its beaches and for its great castle, which serves as a reference point for the whole city. The most predominant architecture are houses
with three/four floors and with very representative colourful façades.
I wanted to represent the most emblematic points, as well as my house in the east-ern part of the map and the vegetation, the streets that connect each of the points
and the sea, the trees and also the mountain that separate the city from the outside.
ALICANTE | SPAIN
byEnric Alonso Banegas
University of Alicante
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Enric Alonso Banegas
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Elche is a city with 230K inhabitants, known for its cultural background, some of which could be represented in this miniature. One of these is the Palmeral of Elche,
of arabic origin and recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage, or the Nit de l’Albà, a pyrotechnic summer celebration which illuminates the skies each August 13th.
As the city is located along the Vinalopó River, several bridges of different cultural backgrounds and styles were constructed as years passed, uniting the old town with
the urban and industrial buildings.
ELCHE | SPAIN
byEsperanza Gil Díaz
University of Alicante
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Esperanza Gil Díaz
Enric Alonso Banegas | Esperanza Gil Díaz Francisco Morcillo Cascales | Gabor Daniela Larisa
Hamarita Sahota | Harry KempHeather Knights | Krasi Yulianova Patnikova
Laura-Adina Stupariu | Leo MuttonManuel Penalva Cases | María González Lozano
María Ponce Garrido | Michaela HickeryMohammad Gerami | Scilla Wihlborg
Tristan Sanchez | Vanessa Garcia Calzadilla
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This drawing represents the city of Alicante located in the Valencian community of Spain.
I started working with my house focusing on my room and from there incorporating it in the city including the street where I live and the characteristic elements of the city center
which is where I have focused.
These elements are the walks near the sea, the beach, the main streets and the castle of Santa Barbara, I have tried to collect the main types of facades in Alicante and incorpo-
rate them into the drawing
ALICANTE | SPAIN
byFrancisco Morcillo Cascales
University of Alicante
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Francisco Morcillo Cascales
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I was born in a small town in the west part of Romania, it’s name is Arad. The town itself is pretty small I would say. The central part of the town is mostrly formed by old buildings that
were built in the time of the Austro— Hungarian rulling of the area, hence the style. Acompaning the central part of the town is the river Mures with a succession of parks and green
space. The river surrounds an old star shaped citadel that now serves as a military base.
My home is in the right corner of the city, located in a house neighbourhood. It is the house I grew up in togheter with my parents, grandparents and my sister.
To represent my house I drew my room because it is the place I spent most of the time in if I was at home. For the cernter of the town I choose some of the buildings that were important to
me or represented landmarks for the town. The rest of the buildings are simple houses or blocks. Now that I look at the drawing from a critical point of view I can see a few things that I
could have changed to improve it’s quality. First I think that I couId’ve drawn a few more building in different styles to better express the variety of building styles that you can see in the city. Next
it would have been better if the area I choose would have been smaller and if I drew only the main roads to have more space to place the buildings. Finally, the cromatic I used does not
have much contrast witch makes the elements of the drawing blend in with each other and the plan is hard to read also beacuse I made it too much like an actuall map.
ARAD | ROMANIA
byGabor Daniela Larisa
UAUIM Bucharest
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Gabor Daniela Larisa
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The miniature drawing produced reflects several areas of my hometown and University city – Bristol. The global city is home to 467,099 people and includes several landmarks such as the suspension bridge and Cabot Tower, which are
illustrated in the miniature drawing created. The drawing shows many areas of the city which are an authentic part of my childhood and teenage years, such as the
rainbow houses of Clifton, the woods near my house and the river.
BRISTOL | ENGLAND
byHamarita Sahota
University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE)
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Hamarita Sahota
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Bristol is not the city I am originally from, I come from a very small village in Suffolk (East of England). I have tried to create a miniature drawing that represents how I
see the city the areas in grey are the urban areas that I have never been. Roads which I have used to either commute to university or is part of my morning run I
have represented, the rest I have left out to create voids. The areas that are important to me I have done hand drawings for such as the street I live on, and the parks I regularly visit, there are also a few buildings that are then iconic within this
landscape which helped to develop a understanding of placement.
BRISTOL | ENGLAND
byHarry Kemp
University of the West of England
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Harry Kemp
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This miniature illustrates the city of Bristol, from my perspective. It highlights the areas of the city that are important to me. It does this through centrally locating my living room, a space where I spend most of
my time. Behind is my garden where I frequently bird watch.
Nearest to my house is St Andrews Park which is surrounded by typical Bristolian houses, Gloucester Road full of colourful buildings and graffiti, and a favourite café – The Crafty Egg.
The university I attend is in the North; The University of the West of England. I travel there by the 72 bus.
Further into the city are some significant spots to visit, including Brandons Hill – with a tower at the top from which you can see an excellent view of the city. Another is Bristol harbour, a hot spot for relaxing
during the warmer months – also where the stature of Colston was thrown into.
Far to the West is the iconic sight-seeing spot – Bristol Suspension Bridge that crosses the river Avon that runs through the city. On one side of the river is dominated by infrastructure and housing, whereas
the other is a dense forest – Leigh Woods.
The map is not accurate however the layout does resemble spatial locations of the spaces represented. The colours and textures aim to represent the feel of the city.
BRISTOL | ENGLAND
byHeather Knights
University of the West of England
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Heather Knights
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The city I currently live in is one full of buildings both modern and ancient. As it’s center in newly constructed there is a clear contrast between the 2 types of structures ones being high and very reflective and others simple, low and monochromatic. The
way space is used in my city is not really the best part of it since many buildings of the newly constructed ones we not even finished. The main aspect of the city is its
cliff with all the white house around it and amazing view you get from the top. It has the older structures and from there you can see the coasts of 2 more cities and the
scenery of the tall buildings and the sea.
My apartment is located near to the sea and is pretty tall which gives me an amazing view of the landscape of the city where the idea of the miniature came from. It is
basically the view that I have of the city and the picture I get every time I think about that place. For me it’s the cliff, the sea and the contrast between the buildings as the three main elements of the town and it’s what I’ve represented through this drawing.
ALICANTE | SPAIN
byKrasi Yulianova Patnikova
University of Alicante
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Krasi Yulianova Patnikova
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In my miniature I tried to represent the best as I could my hometown, Brăila, located in the south-east side of Romania. As a whole, the entire city is important for me, as I
lived here most of the time.
I tried to enhance the presence of the most important places for me, starting from my house and my grandma’s house as well. Then, I focused on the buildings that for
me are representative in the city, like the railway, the water tower, the clock, the “house with ghosts”, the Greek Church, and so on.
I also wanted to represent in my miniature drawing the old part of the town, which communicates to the Danube, and the new part of it, which, instead of a “fan” street
plot, chooses an irregular one.
Looking from a critical point of view, the map is not totally accurate. It would have been better if I tried a more artistic style of drawing, to give the image a more
“vibrant and lively” feeling.
BRĂILA | ROMANIA
byLaura-Adina Stupariu
UAUIM Bucharest
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Laura-Adina Stupariu
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This miniature drawing focuses on my home town of Shaftesbury with a population of 9000, centred on one of the oldest streets at the bottom of the hilltop town,
where it is connected to the centre at the top of the hill via a cobbled path. Being within a rural area, fields surround the town with a transition from man-made struc-
ture to nature.
SHAFTESBURY | ENGLAND
byLeo Mutton
University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE)
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Leo Mutton
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This drawing was started by the plan of the bedroom. Then, the principal buildings and places of the city were added. You can see how these buildings merge between
the rest of the surrounding buildings and the connexion around the city. Also a castle is represented which is out of the city but you can see it from inside.
Around the drawing the weather is reflected, the temperature changes in different seasons and how it affects the color of the buildings.
ALBACETE | SPAIN
byMaría González Lozano
University of Alicante
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María González Lozano
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To create this drawing, I started by locating the houses where I have lived in my city as well as the places that are most important to me in Alicante.
Then I wanted to show the connections between the different points, modifying the real shapes of the streets so that they show what I really perceive when I pass
through them.
ALICANTE | SPAIN
byMaría Ponce Garrido
University of Alicante
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María Ponce Garrido
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My miniature drawing focuses on my Hometown of Bristol. Bristol is a historic and culturally rich city with its built environment including that of Iron Age Forts, Roman
Villas and Medieval Walls. The city’s past fortune relied on its trading port developed during the 15th century, however in more recent years the city-centre docks have been rebranded as a place of culture and heritage. At present Bristol
has the 10th largest population of any city within England.
My drawing depicts some of the historical elements of the city mentioned above such as a diagram of Bristol’s Medieval walls as well a The SS Great Britain. On the other hand, the hot air balloons, bike and colourful housing all show the city’s shift towards more cultural, creative and sustainable industries. Within this drawing my
house stands to represent my own private part of Bristol.
BRISTOL | ENGLAND
byMichaela Hickery
University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE)
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Michaela Hickery
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Here is Kashan. A historical city located in the center of Iran that its name is associated with traditional architecture and specifically central-courtyard houses.
And here It is a journey through an eastern traditional style in the illustrating: Miniature. A very unique way of picturing tales and events through distorted
perspectives (known as reverse perspective). This is a style in which the widely-known illustration’s principles do not suppose to limit the author from picturing a vast,
detailed event and field. This is an architectural journey through the city and at the same time, an opportunity to picture our city in one shot and nothing more accurate,
detailed, and artistic than miniature to help us to overcome this challenge.
The presented illustration is a selected part of the historical zone of Kashan, with its unique urban texture shaped organically with mono-color central-courtyard houses.
In this picture also there are some well-known spots including, Agha Bozorg masque, Tabatabai House, Boroujerdi House, Ameriha House, and Saljooghi castle, that
shaped the considerable part of the final illustration.
KASHAN | IRAN
byMohammad Gerami
Budapest University of Technology
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Mohammad Gerami
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The city of Umeå is located in the middle of Sweden, northern Europe. With a population of 80 thousand people, nearly a fourth are university students. The dorm room buildings are a significant part of the city
layout, kept isolated from the streets of colorful family houses. Around the city edges, these family houses become scarcer, many enveloped in the rich dark forests or lining the rushing river all the way to the sea.
Significant buildings include the beautiful town church, the architecture school, the artpiece of The Clothespin and the eastern train station. Umeå is a place where many students take the train to go back
and forth to other hometowns, but while in the city the bicycle networks are dominant.Snow lays layered on the ground 6 months a year, but the evergreens encircle Umeå's surrounding land-scapes and small forests with their clear colour in a midst of all the white. During the warmer months, the
birches and junipers sprout as well, all around the rolling fields of green or lining the streets.My city map is not based on the reality of Umeå's layout, but rather a simplification of the areas of the city
and which hold importance to me personally. I've tried to convey the feelings these places bring me, how I perceive them in a relative memory and not as they truly are. Thinking back, my personal dorm room will
always be off great memory, as well as the connected dorm rooms of my friends.
The layout isn’t clear and centered, but alive and messy, filled with contrasts of city and nature, old and new, colours and grays, just like I perceive the city. It isn’t organised, but alive with the rapidly changing
types of neighborhoods and spread out landmarks. But even more importantly it isn’t as much an isolated city as it is part of a network. People travel between all the nearby cities constantly, and the city edge is so
vague it can barely be determined, just like in my miniature.
UMEÅ | SWEDEN
byScilla Wihlborg
University of Alicante
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Scilla Wihlborg
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Caracas is the capital and largest city of Venezuela; it’s contained entirely within a valley close to the Caribbean Sea but separated from the coast by a steep
2,200-metre-high mountain range, Cerro El Ávila. To the south there are more hills and mountains surrounding the city.
My house is part of a residential area located to the East of Caracas, which is represented in the drawing as the main street. Around my residence, the rest of the city rises, as well as some landmarks like the Guaire’s River and Venezuela’s national
tree with yellow leaves, called Araguaney.
CARACAS | VENEZUELA
byVanessa Garcia Calzadilla
University of Alicante
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Vanessa Garcia Calzadilla
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Orihuela is the main city in the distric of La Vega Baja located at south Alicante, Spain. It takes place at the foot of the mountain ‘La Cruz de la Muela’ which contains The Cross
at the top of the mountain, a ruined acient castle and a priest seminar from XVI century. The city has an extention beyond the Segura river.
My house is part of the rural area located in the middle of the way between Orihuela and Arneva, another residential zone which is still part of Orihuela. I’ve been living in
Orihuela since I was a child and also in Arneva due to my grandparents are from there.
All Orihuela is integrated between the mountains and one of them, the ‘Repetidor de Hurchillo’ close to Arneva, has a high antenna that controls frecuencies from TV and radio. Palm trees are also typical from there as an heritage from the arabs plus very
representative of the place’s nature.
ORIHUELA | SPAIN
byManuel Penalva Cases
University of Alicante
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Manuel Penalva Cases
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My hometown is a little city in France, in the suburb of Paris. It is separated from the capital by a forest “le Bois de Vincennes”, there are roads and bike lanes that cross the forest to go to Paris. My town is called “Joinville-le-Pont” : the city that is joined by the
bridge. Indeed, Joinville is divided in two by the river “la Marne”, and there is a beauti-ful bridge that links the two parts. I live in the upper part of the town in an apartment
with my family, in a building made out of red bricks. I cross this bridge every time I have to go to the other side of the town, where all my friends live and where I had my
school and middle school. The bridge also goes on top of an island “l’Ile Fanac” where I used to do violin in the music school. The town is very flowery and green, there are
many sitting spaces along the river.
JOINVILLE-LE-PONT | FRANCE
byTristan Sanchez
University of Alicante
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Tristan Sanchez
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After graduated from I.T.U. Faculty of Architecture Department of Architecture with the 3rd degree in 2005, he had started his Mas-ter’s in Architectural Design Programme at I.T.U. During his MSc, he had been to Brandenburg Technical University (BTU-Cottbus) as an Erasmus Exchange Programme student for one year in Germany. In 2008, he was enrolled in Architectural Design Phd Programme at I.T.U. and completed his PhD in 2016. He was a visiting scholar as a Fulbrighter at University of Pennsylvania (U-Penn) School of Design for 2013-14 academic year in U.S.A. Between 2005 and 2017, he worked as a research assitant at ITU Faculty of Architecture Department of Architecture, tutored architectural design studios and taught theoretical courses. He was awarded in various competitions both in student and professional categories. He has organized and participated in numerous national and international workshops. He has been a jury member in several competitions. In 2009, he designed ITU Library of Foreign Lan-guage School with Ahu Sökmenoğlu and this project was realized in 2010. In 2016, he designed a project called “Birdscape” with Birge Yıldırım Okta during Beşiktaş Garden and Flower Festival at Dünya Barış Parkı in Beşiktaş and this Project took place in Turkish Architectural Yearbook 2016. Since 2017, he has been working as an Assistant Prof. at MEF University Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture Department of Architecture. His research interests are body-space-time relations, bodily experience, representation theories and methods, the relation between representation and sensation, and the interaction between fashion design and archi-tecture.
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