What we don't Anticipate

Architecture is never as definate as the drawing

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

I initially created the collage (image //1) and from this abstracted the line drawing.

The layering of the tracing paper has two key purposes. The first is that the layering and duplicating process of the paper changes the depth of field of the drawing and takes lines out of focus which were originally so pronounced from CAD. The second is the layering of the paper is designed to enable the crossing of paper to create a lines itself, in doing so the paper introduces another style of line.

I want to use this layering technique to represent the unplanned design features of architecture. A building is never built and used exactly as planned by the architect. Architecture is never as definate as the drawing.

This technique of drawing 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.

I also used a technique of layering the drawing and then cutting and folding the paper. The idea of this is to represent the reflections of the building which are always present in glass and numerous building materials but never represented in line drawings. 

I would like to continue to test the capabilities of a line drawing to represent a proposal, not just of how it should be built but of how it will actually be used. Like a building - a drawing should be tested.