adnan agha
interdisciplinary designer & artist

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  design discovery
my first experience in the world of architecture, design discovery introduced to projection methods and orthographic drawing as well as learning a “transformative” method of design.

we began with drawing and thinking in space. in our first project, we composed an image (right) using an object and a verb, in my case, a leftover piece of styrofoam lodged into a staircase railing. 

from this image, we extracted orthographic views and hybridize them into new forms, shifting fluidly between seeing a drawing as a proposal and as raw material for the next iteration.

in my own work, i was challenged to bring a new level of rigor to my process and found a clearer appreciation for the balance between the perfection of elegance and the rough edges of humanity.














orthography
our first drawings were of our selected scene at three different scales: one foot, five feet, and ten feet square. we created plan, section, and elevation images for each scale and across different viewpoints.

10‘ x 10’ plan
10’ x 10’ elevation
10’ x 10’ section
5’ x 5’ plan
5’ x 5’ elevation
5’ x 5’ section
1’ x 1’ plan
1’ x 1’ elevation
1’ x 1’ section













transformation
after completing these drawings, we combined them, forming a generative new drawing from which to draw sections.

my own rules for generating the sections were simple: filled areas must be contiguous and as sections develop (another layer is added) the overlap across drawings creates areas of continuity and disruption, allowing the structure to naturally grow and crumble in space.


















narrative building
my own rules for generating the sections were simple: filled areas must be contiguous and as sections develop (another layer is added) the overlap across drawings creates areas of continuity and disruption, allowing the structure to naturally grow and crumble in space.

my assembled sections evoked a scene of a distant future’s collapsed wreckage, concrete and steel eroding in a wasteland. I began to ruminate on the dynamic between building and nature, the way our structures balance against the forces surrounding them before they are ultimately consumed by them.






















entropy
in my concept model, i sought to embody the tension between structure and entropy. as the rocks hurtle through the lattice, they come to rest in equilibrium with the destroyed beams.

















balance

my final model transposes the grid to room scale. visitors are led through an escalation in scale as each boulder along the path is revealed, a reminder of both our power and fragility.











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