Memorable study trip to Barcelona: the patterns

This study trip to Barcelona, Spain was all about patterns recognition.

On a chilled 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. "

Study trip to Barcelona: The patterns recognition

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,

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.

Location: The Streets of Barcelona

Photography: Naomi Wangari

Sketches: Naomi Wangari

Love,

Swanky_tecture.

Original Feature:

https://swankytecture.wordpress.com/2017/06/02/patterns-that-make-the-best-melodies/