Sputtering cluttering

Row of bare naked trees with branches overarching for the residential block while the zigzagging residential façade is set way too close to the streets, only to intensify pedestrian level congestion. Most often, these tree branches when not pruned entangle with overhead electrical wirings. Visually, these natural and artificial clutters seem not to give way to each other but vying for attention in the sky. They all seem to distinctly jut out while the pristine sky blue serves their backdrop.

Dust free, the monochromatic hue of the blue sky cools the busy street views. Reflection stemming from across the street has the unrecognizable building images imprinted in their thoroughly disfigured fragments. It can be some bombardment of visual collage that finds its complete freedom in rhythmic gesture.

Another residential block has somewhat unconventional form of balconies. In this case, these balconies are all formal in square. While elongated form with less utilitarian use tends to be the common balcony, these squarish exceptionals appear protrusive, almost screaming for attention, for outer space beyond their wall façade. Balcony has indeed lost its meaningful functions but a dumping ground in these shown examples.

When in lush, trees or shrubs help to cover the multitude of poorly made environmental conditions. The nearly void gable wall can be an eye sore or visual menace for their monotonous rows of redundant appearance usually unappealing for street view or as street boundary. Despite their being poorly utilized to effectuate appeal with regard to street landscaping, trees serve to mitigate if not barricade street level noise propagation as well as behaving like sponges in settling if not absorbing dust particles in the air. Mutually, as such, those empty gable walls without window fenestration can be enhanced with trees or landscaping.

Another most apparent and unsightly visual pollution are those air condition condensers that found themselves improperly allocated and ultimately leading to street façade clutter besides spewing heat onto the street.

At times, sputtering cluttering can be found where an interior territory of a neighborhood undergoes renovation. Here, with diligent builders dressed in light blues and safety helmets while in their sporadic locations up and down all over the site, scaffolding rises and takes over building corners for passers-by to clear or to side track their forwarding movement.

Jeremy

Shanghai upon the Sea

January 03, 2009