Abstract:
this paperfexamines two First Year Architecture Studio projects conducted at Unitec Department
of Architecture, Auckland during the second semester of 2010. Discipline was at the heart of
these Studios. Both projects used only manual processes to explore and represent the design of
what Marco Frascari describes as the "numinous place."
Additionally, each project was restricted to a particular orthographic view: the section in and the
plan in . Architectural prsffitice has traditionally used these views but the increasing use of BIM
and three dimensional computer modelling calls into question their continued viability. These
studios were designed to extract from these conventional representational devices the maximum
communicative potential and to explore the pictorial possibilities within these orthographic
projections.
The paper will describe the processes used, survey the original intentions of the projects and
review the success of them in terms of the work produced by the students and the learning that
can be shared between currency and tradition.
