DRAWING AS PROCESS

As an Architecture Student, drawing has become a critical part of my design process. I use it to build a better understand of something, generate a new idea or just for fun.

I started by drawing physical objects on my desk as reference and expanded from there. When I hit a roadblock in the design process commonly will look to books for reference.

The twelve semi-abstract forms on the opposite page are referenced from Francois Blanciak’s Siteless: 1001 Building Forms.

After building some basic skills in drawing I began to use it as a tool for architectural design. The next spread contains a drawing set I made during the initial design stage for the “Homes at Harrisburg” studio project. Several key elements from these drawings made it into the final design.

The drawing above was made for a competition entry and is titled “Duality of Space.” The entry was a research proposal for investigating the density of Hong Kong through section. I wanted to investigate Central Hong Kong in vertical section and comparing it to Victoria Park in plan.