This weekend half of the Lens & Tympanum team spent 18 hours immersed in a drawing workshop led by the amazing landscape architecture firm GGN. The weekend centered around drawing what you can’t see–using drawing as a way of grappling with the complexities of site and reckoning with what are often convoluted spatial relationships of built form to larger, geological pattern. The GGN design process focuses on building up a rigorous understanding of the physical concept via site analysis, and that site analysis includes and even seems to center itself on these analytical, thoughtful, critical drawings that seek to identify the specific. I left the weekend feeling very inspired to dive into using drawing as one of our layered media to get at the specific, the fine grained, and the sensory in relation to the spatial.
UW students gather at the GGN office for a weekend drawing workshop.
Drawing to understand and communicate predevelopment conditions.
Drawing layering contemporary built environment onto larger landform.
Analysis drawing grappling with the complexity of cut, fill, elevated viaduct, tunnel, dual slopes, and general spatial configuration of Pike Place Market.