Day 5 (Senses: Sight): Taking part in the NYC Ferry practicum and seeing the city from the water on ferry rides inspired this work. From the water, I notice how buildings overlap and how the waterfront reads as a continuous landscape.
Seeing New York from the Water borrows the slow unfolding of a handscroll. Three layers of building silhouettes slide at different speeds to create parallax, letting the scene gradually pass across the frame. I combined building footprints, height information, and landmark references to make an artistic view of New York’s waterfront. The movement and silhouettes are arranged for this illustrated landscape. It is a schematic scene, rather than a reconstruction of an actual voyage or a precise simulation of visibility.
Complete static panorama:
Data sources:
- Buildings and heights: NYC OTI Building Footprints.
- Geographic context: NYC DCP Borough Boundaries, NYC Ferry route information, and NYC OTI Transport Structure 2022.
- Landmark references: Wikidata, Hines/Herzog & de Meuron (56 Leonard), and CTBUH/One Manhattan Square; details in the project source notes.