USE COMBINATION

Transparent Drawing is used to increase our knowledge in the following ways:
-Use 1.  Understand existing buildings and objects
-Use 2.  Form generation
-Use 3.  Real world solutions
To this point, these three uses have been somewhat distinct.  For example, a previous Use 1 Villa Savoye Transparent Drawing focused solely on understanding the existing.  Likewise, a  previous Use 2 drawing was based on a painting by DeKooning and yielded a fresh form.  What if two or more of the uses are combined?

The above drawing of Villa Savoye asks, and hopefully answers that exact question.  On one level, it is a Use 1 Transparent Drawing of the building;  it shows how the building works.  On another level, it is a Use 2;  the fundamental circulation of the building per the ramps at the center serve as a form generator.

This seems like a different type of form generation, in which the way the building is used and the spaces are all used to generate a new form.  The first example of a combined use drawing that I presented in these pages was for the St. Bueno’s Church.

So we have a new genre:  form generation as a type of analysis of how the building functions.  This can only be done transparently.   This sort of understanding and knowledge is absolutely impossible with Representational Spacetime.