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An Exploration of Lafayette Square Neighborhood
For this project, I was tasked with exploring Lafayette Square Neighborhood in St. Louis and creating a video based on my experience. The original park was designed by Maximillian Kern and later built in 1951. It is considered the first public park built in St. Louis. The park also boasts several other firsts, such as being home to one of the first professional baseball leagues and being the home of the St. Louis Cyclones, as well as having the first public monument built by a woman west of the Mississippi.
During my time there, I was drawn to the very particular architecture of the area. The houses are all pristine, elegant, and well-manicured Victorians protected by ornate iron fences. Based on my time there, I chose the following three words to use as conceptual directors: lush, protected, and particular. I used an app on my phone to create a 3D scan of the area. Coming from a free app on my phone, the quality of the scans was below ideal, but I thought that the broken, oftentimes disorienting, nature of the 3D models fit nicely with my three core themes. To represent the picture-perfect nature of the neighborhood, I decided to insert a cube into the scenes with the 3D scans of the neighborhood. Lastly, I projected collaged images of the park onto the surface of the cube.
InDesign, Photoshop, Premiere, Blender, Scaniverse
Amy Auman
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