draw.erase.remember

the first project for drawn forth.

(Arch 509, Fall 2011, Prof. Perry Kulper)

the act of drawing 504 marks. all engineered and structured. the marks were generated along side a famous floor plan (Koolhaas's Villa Dall Ava in this case) to gain a relational structure between the two. the 504 marks were to be aligned, patterned, rhythmic, and repeated in sets of 21, 24 times.

once drawn, erase and remember take place on both halves of the drawing. the act of erasing our own work was a way of selecting and precisely acting on the drawing. covering, removing, or deleting in some way, becomes a form of design in itself as opposed to a form of destruction. one might begin to understand and read the act of erasure as a secondary layer of information in which we trump the drawing.

the remembering was a bit trickier...

this was meant to erase, but in some way protect or collect the marks.

i chose to layer on top of themarks with white gesso to create a ridged structure but also follow multiple edge conditions, thus mapping out strange formal conditions which were never there to begin with. these were generated through masking out bounds before erasing, therefore, the act of remembering was an obvious one; i used the same material that i had protected and created these edge conditions as the material to protect and 'remember' the marks below it.

Koolhaas's Villa Dall Ava

(http://wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18370&page=3)

the 504 marks before erase-remember occured.

note that all 24 sets are numbered as well.