![]() ![]() This dependence on other things gives the impression that scale is essential to architecture, but with the use of emerging and future technologies, software, and processes, this understanding could shift: scale could become merely supplementary to the practice of architecture, and even to the discipline at large. In architecture, scale seems to exist only because of its relation to other notions, concepts, and objects, such as proportion, size, line weight, level of detail and/or information, and measure. The drawings were awarded the joint first place Winter 2022 Marco Frascari Prize. The series of drawings described here were produced by Devon Moar while pursuing a Master of Architectural Studies under the guidance of Professor Dr Stephen Fai at Carleton University. The body’s own presence is a marker of time as a key element in the construction of space, revealing a temporal depth that is inherent in any drawing. The still shots extracted from the video tracking Moar’s performance drawing reveal that zooming in and out of the drawing allows different insights into the entwined relations of the temporal and material construction of the drawing and its details. The designer’s body occupies and lives within the drawing’s own temporal dimensions, making space and time visible. ![]() Every scale change requires a new engagement with the work.Ī change in scale allows for the observation of different sets of relations that are both geometrical and temporal. Taking time, moving away, and moving closer to something, an idea, an object – or even a bee. Drawings are often presented as projections of possible futures, but such constructions happen in slow time and are products of times past.Ĭhanges of scale are not just about understanding an object at different levels of detailing they are also about the time spent confronting a design from different viewpoints and distances. Once completed, drawings can be seen as representations of still shots of a future time portraying a finished design. One could say that when it comes to architectural media, there are two types of scales dealing with two kinds of distance: spatial (dimensional scales) and temporal (time scales). One drawing here becomes many drawings, each marking a different moment of discovery unfolding a process. The bee drawing(s) by Devon Moar illustrate that changes in scale imply a passage of time. ![]()
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