I am now well under way with writing my dissertation and here is an excerpt from the Paper chapter exploring the wasteland's concepts and modes of representation from an architects point of view:
As architects, we have an innate desire to translate disorder into order; the design process is therefore in opposition to these spaces. Representing terrain vague shouldn't consist of drawings which are "transparent, neutral mediators that turn social space into an abstracted homogenisation for the purpose of exchange and drained of lived experience" (Forty, 2000, p272). As explored, order and geometrical focus shouldn't be the locus of the drawing, but expressions of experiences and material textural richness. Giovanni Piranesi's multi-informational drawings, which for all intents and purposes were forgotten by the architectural discipline (Zambelli, 2014), presents a juxtaposition of stark imagery and an array of projections. Enlarged details sit adjacent to elevations and highly rendered plans that presents a highly accessible composition. Whilst confusing the series of fragments creates a visual journey to explore and move through to build our understanding of the space presented.
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