draft, the name chosen for this project, refers simultaneously to an object — in its most literal sense of sketch, essay — and to a process — a way of working, of creating, an iteration. In the context of Architecture and its design processes, given their nature based on drawing, draft takes on an even clearer denotation: in the scope of this project, process drawings will be worked on, seeking to recognize in them the specificities of architectural design.

As an exploratory project, draft aims to explore working drawings preserved in architectural archives, approaching them from the point of view of their materiality, with the double objective of generating knowledge about the practice of design, as well as proposing new categories and vocabulary of Drawing in these archives, resulting from a material study of these materials. The purpose is to learn about the process of ideation and conception that Drawing embodies and conveys, recognizing its importance as an operator for the iteration of ideas, the crossing of references and the verification of solutions.

The aim is to observe the materials, the tangible and concrete dimension of the objects drawn and their making: studies, sketches, worksheets, reproduction tools and processes, materials and ways of drawing. Moreover, the aim is to trigger dialogues with the universes and contexts that each piece condenses and, in turn, expands: extrapolations, parallels and intersections that open up fields of knowledge and reveal “the secret and slow synchronicity of the great structures of life, the unconscious and cultures” (Françoise Choay, Postface in La Dimension Cachée, Edward T. Hall, Paris, Seuil, 1971, p. 244).

 

This project inaugurates the “album — design itineraries” line of research, also coordinated by Professor Marta Cruz. More than as a disciplinary field, this line of research is interested in drawing as a territory, a door, a key and an entrance to design activity in the field of architecture.
album is in itself a process, an open-ended process. A constant composition and recomposition of materials brought together by elective affinities.

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