FRAYING

Drawing technique// Fraying 

This drawing has been created to test how we draw as architects.

Fraying is the layering of the tracing paper for two key purposes. The first is the layering and duplicating process of CAD lines to change the depth of field of a drawing and to take lines out of focus. The second is the layering of the paper which is designed to enable the cross over of paper to create a line, in doing so the paper introduces another style and meaning of line. This line is used to represent the unplanned design features of architecture, which present themselves once a building has been occupied.

An additional element to the technique of fraying is the repeated layering of part of the drawing and then cutting and folding the trace on itself. This creates a reflection of the drawing. The idea of this is to represent the reflections of buildings which are present in numerous building materials but are not commonly represented in line drawings.

A building is never built and used exactly as planned by the architect and fraying is designed to anticipate the serendipity of design and to 'weather' and soften a drawing much like a building weathers in the environment and softens as people use it.

What we draw is never built. Fraying highlights the disparity between the achieved architecture and the drawing, and in doing so is suggesting that this is OK.

Fraying isn't trying to reduce this disparity, instead it is trying to remove the anticipation of accuracy. Therefore the frayed drawing becomes less dictatorial and allows the representation of the building to be more organic and avoids superimposed, negligible design intentions.



Drawing Collection_ Fraying //1