Documentation

As November begins, I am knee deep in this thesis. The architect of the project has not returned my many calls/emails, so there is little hope left in obtaining survey drawings for this historic structure. But, on the bright side, I found a few images on his website that will assist me in the documentation of this project.

I painstakingly counted the bricks on the front facade so that I could draw an elevation for my midterm. The drawing has since been completed (above), a documentation of the existing structure with every visible brick counted and drawn. This process has brought me much closer to the building, I feel as though I am beginning to know it and care for it. My next goal is to have a back elevation and a west elevation.


As I do these meticulous drawings, I will also be working in a looser and messier parallel. I am taking this front elevation and collaging it with ideas about space/place in a series of images. With these collages I hope to take a stance on what the 'other half' will be.