Adelaide Architecture Photography | Geometric Abstract
Repeating Angles Across a Modern Adelaide Facade
What interested me here was not the building as a whole, but what happened when I moved in close and looked almost straight up. The architecture stopped reading as a structure and became a pattern.
Rows of angular panels repeat across the facade, getting progressively smaller as they climb toward the top of the frame. In black and white, the geometry becomes even more pronounced. Bright triangular surfaces sit beside deep shadows, while the windows and structural lines underneath add another layer of repetition.
I deliberately left a large area of clean white sky above the building. That open space gives the dense pattern somewhere to go and exaggerates the sense that the facade is continuing upward almost indefinitely. The perspective also changes the scale. Forms that appear large and heavy near the bottom become smaller, tighter and more abstract as they recede.
This is the kind of architectural photography I enjoy most. I am not simply recording what a building looks like. I am looking for the smaller visual relationships hidden inside it — rhythm, repetition, contrast, angles and the way perspective can transform something familiar.
Photographed in Adelaide, Australia, the scene becomes less about a particular piece of architecture and more about shape and structure. From this viewpoint, the facade turns into an almost graphic composition, somewhere between architectural photography and geometric abstraction.
© Dan Kosmayer, 2016
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