These sketches were made by wandering in and around Siena's main piazza: piazza del Campo. One of the best ways of understanding a space is through sketching because it forces one to look for various proportional relationships. I had to represent the piazza as close as I could without looking at any sort of plan or picture but through my experience of it.
After the fact I got this image from Google that shows an aerial view of the piazza. It looks as though I didn't trust my eye as closely as I should have as the figure/ground shows a more idealized half circle than the actual piazza which is slightly deformed due to the terrain. So the figure ground is more diagrammatic than representational.
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