Bird's-eye view of São João da Madeira City Map

Bird's-eye view of São João da Madeira City Map
by José Miguel Cardoso

• Awarded April 15, 2018
• CLIENT: Junta de Freguesia de São João da Madeira
• 8.257

This map shows a hybridism of observational drawing and cartographic code. It is inspired by the old Portulan charts, in which the rose of the winds marks the location of the navigator / observer towards the landscape. The observer in the center of the map is framed by a 360 degree panorama of the city landscape, offering a direct relationship between the map and the surrounding landscape, stimulating the sense of place. Reading upside down, breaking the convention of North in the top, allows to better know the world.