Scale on paper between technique and imagination. Example of Constant's drawing hypothesis

Abstract

The procedure of scaling is one of the elemental routines in architectural drawing. Along with paper as a fundamental drawing material, scale is the architectural convention that follows the emergence of drawing in architecture from the Renaissance. This analysis is questioning the scaling procedure through the pasion of t=drawing in the conception process. Current theoretical researches on architectural drawing are underlining the paradigm change that occurred as a sudden swich from handmade to computer generated drawing. This change consequently influenced notions of drawing materiality, relations to scale and geometry. Developing the argument of scaling as a dual action, technical and imaginative, Constant's New Babylon drawing work is taken as an example to problematize the architect-project-object relational chain.