Architectural Drawings Research
Masters by Conversion
Hypothesis:
The drawing style of perspective visualisations can influence lay-persons’ perceptions of an architectural subject
Experiment 1 - a simple gradient exercise repeated in different media.
I found that a common link connecting many of my favourite architectural images was the inclusion of some indication, residue or mark left by the process of drawing itself. This first experiment attempts to determine to what degree the draftsman affects the tone or meaning of an image, with respect to different drawing materials. It also aims to find to what extent the drawing process can be demonstrated in each image.
A further development of this gradient exercise shows how each drawing process may be further integrated into each image, using macro photography, residual detritus or marks left from each process and images relating to the application of each medium.
Experiment 2 - Drawing Analysis
Once an example was chosen, the perceived constituent components were simplified into a list of set categories, composition, medium, inhabitation and narrative.
Final Experiment - Drawings Survey
Implementation of a public survey using a set of drawings that isolate particular aspects of drawing production
Survey for Medium
Similar composition, inhabitation, textures and light intends to isolate the medium as the only element of drawing-style that alters between these two images. The geometry of the CAD is traced accurately, but the drawing is rendered free-hand and by eye without tracing textures to give a truer sense of pencil-rendering.
Survey for Composition
Approximating a geometrically accurate and realistically textured visualization of the scene, with no recognizable marks of the ‘drafting’ process. Activities relating to craft, public gallery and piazza are clearly included, with the shared activity of crafts-people taking precedence of the scene. The difference between the images is the eye-level point of view in Comp I and the aerial point of view in Comp II, while the inhabitants and medium remain as similar as possible.
Survey for Inhabitation
A combination of unnerving naked figures with ink and watercolours aims to approximate the drawing style of Peter Salter. It is intended that the influence of his ‘grotesque’ figures upon perceptions of the architecture is tested. As a control medium an identical watercolour image is used to test how inhabitation affects perceptions, with the Salter-esque figures replaced for those seen in the other 4 drawings.
Public Survey Method