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Volume 5, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 2057-0384
  • E-ISSN: 2057-0392

Abstract

This project report outlines ongoing collaborative design research that addresses aspects of architectural drawing, in particular scale and time. This project is discussed through the lens of the inhabitation of drawing: in both the making of, and encountering, drawing. ‘Drawing the Room | Drawing within the Room’ (2019) couples projective drawings with documentation – or creative post-occupancy data – of built houses. Using motion capture technology, the movements of inhabitation are captured and translated to line work animations. The resulting drawings of inhabitation are projected full-scale, exhibited in the space of the architectural office, the site of conceiving and production of both drawings and architecture. Using the architectural office as the space of installation and exhibition presents a practice for acknowledging and engaging with these spaces of creativity, beyond casting the office as commercial space. The project explores contemporary performative drawing practices within architecture and considers the ways in which bodies and drawings interact. This work highlights the fundamental importance of lines within architecture, not as demarcation, divider or indexical references, but as temporal traces of bodily movement.

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Drawing the room | Drawing within the room
Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice 5, 261 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1386/drtp_00036_1
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Keyword(s): architectural drawing; architectural scale; full-scale drawing; motion capture technology; performative drawing; post factum documentation

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