Drawing as a Methodological Tool For Reading The Cityscape
Snežana Zlatković
https://doi.org/10.60152/f7cgvl5y
Abstract: This research begins from the assumption that reading the cityscape can contribute to the improvement of drawing as a methodological tool. We recognize the understanding of complex spatial changes that are reflected through the cityscape as those that, through drawings, can reveal values for the initial stages of subsequent design processes. We investigate whether and how the drawing can follow and analyze the speed of changes that are happening in front of us, primarily in the extreme density of the built structure, but also in parallel through the ephemerality of the elements that change in the appearance of the city. We are interested in whether the transformation of drawings on the historical brink of the technological revolution of architectural tools during the past three decades hides an unexamined starting point, or an undiscovered potential of drawings to act between all the qualities of an analog way of thinking in relation to digital possibilities. We conduct research from the current condition of the city to the aesthetics of the dissolution of the city in order to establish aesthetic elements for the process of reading the cityscape. Extracted aesthetic elements, line – movement, rhythm – distortion of multitude, color – interaction, transparency – active condition will indicate the construction of a new analytical process. The layering of the city through the methodology of research by drawing will reveal the transformability of the procedure and the redefinition of drawing as a contemporary methodological tool. The sequences of the conditions of the city, which have been examined through a multitude of experiments, will shed light on the chronological development of the tool, but also reveal the values of the identified problem. After the building of the drawing by means of analog-digital mapping of the series of micro and macro atmospheric conditions of the cityscape, new specific layers of space are produced. In their deposition, an excess is created that moves the drawing from its static role to the dynamic development of the tool.
Keywords: condition of the city, phenomenological reduction, aesthetic elements, reading the cityscape, drawing, methodological tool
How to cite this Paper (Harvard referencing style):
Zlatković, S. (2024) ‘Drawing as a Methodological Tool For Reading The Cityscape’, in R. Bogdanović (ed.) On Architecture — Shaping the City through Architecture, Proceedings. Belgrade, Serbia: STRAND, pp. 218–228.