the idea of the studio is to reiterate the existing: to rework an architectural work by le corbusier five different times - each time with a different “disruption,” limit, or, best, obstruction. these new “requirements” will be primarily representational, historical, programmatic, theoretical, and formal. for the projects’ success, one must critically approach the projects; allowing the design investigations to help determine the final outcome.

Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Architectural Alchemy: Dibujos sin Papel

If, according to Robin Evans, “architectural drawings are projections, which means that organized arrays of imaginary straight lines pass through the drawing to corresponding parts of the thing represented by the drawing,” the “drawings without paper” therefore should maintain a projected relationship with the thing represented but through the thing itself. And, in accordance with the investigations of the studio, these new “drawings” should be considered generative and open and not, as is many times thought of models, as finalized materializations of the design.

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