Click to place visual markers of Armenian architecture across the screen, mirroring the typological frequency of a collected dataset. Adjust your browser's width as you go to create an expressive data visualizaton.
Documenting over 125 Armenian churches in a continuous flow across over 25 countries from Western Europe, to Russia, the Middle East, and the land in the Caucuses to which Armenians are indigenous, Claudio Gobbi’s Arménie Ville explores memory, heritage, time, and migration.
In hastatak.html, your interaction proliferates the visual signs of Armenian architecture with the same regularity in which they appear in Gobbi’s data set. Reflect on the data's capacity to repeat the same visual signs which have remained greatly unchanged since their formation, and “its legacy to a land which is still searching for its most profound cultural roots”.