Coursework_California College of the Arts_MArch_Fall 2015
Instructor_Brian Price

This course looked at drawing and analysis as methods for discovery and interpretation – a kind of ‘thinking through drawing’. It is based on the premise that drawings are non-objective translators of the things they represents; and as such, become instrumental in both the condition and proposition of architectural and urban space.

Project one analysed two unintentional negative spatial conditions in the urban fabric through consciously shifting one’s perception of the everyday space surrounding us. The first drawing examines the dynamic nature of “The Wiggle” (a heavily trafficked bike route that weaves between two of the city’s large hills) as a negative space created by the overlay of San Francisco’s city grid, its topographic intensity, and the people navigating the result. The drawing shows the volume created by this negotiation as an excavation of space between the barrier of the the built grid and the limitations of the steep hills. The second drawing maps the negative space resultant of the overlain 101 freeway onto the existing bend of the city grid. This tangle of space is represented as additive form constructed by the presence of the many overpasses and exits.