The Elements
Graduate Thesis
Individual Project
2021
Outstanding Directed Design Research Award
The thesis project explores essential graphic elements in an architectural drawing. The combination of architectural drawing and graphics yields new methods of reading the drawings. The drawings illustrate the concept, introduce the design techniques, demonstrate the programs, and create the characters. More importantly, the reading of the drawing echos the experience of the building. In addition, the intention behind the DUO's invention is to emphasize through repetition and make dialogues between the pairs. The paired drawing shows the repetition of the same graphic configuration and reveals different aspects that each drawing intends to focus on. The architectural drawings can be clean and informative, easy to understand, and enjoyable to read.
"When reading the diptych images, imagine there will be a two-part museum. One that oscillates between the extreme flatness, the other one seems to have depth and atmosphere. Rather than being the same thing, it oscillates between graphicness and spatiality, between pure information and embodied space." --- Perry Kulper
