invisible DRAWING- Presence of Absence

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Prajakt is from Nagpur, the “Orange City” of India. After completing a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Priyadarshini Institute of Architecture & Design Studies, Nagpur, and working for a couple of years in a professional setting in India, he moved to Los Angeles, where he earned his Master of Architecture degree from Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). Working with various digital tools at SCI-Arc fascinated him in understanding architecture through the lens of drawings.
Prajakt’s deep passion for his profession even percolates into his hobbies. He loves to travel to places that are endowed with an architectural legacy. After completing his architectural journey from Nagpur to Ahmedabad, to Mumbai, to Los Angeles, he has made Chicago his next stop, definitely for its architecture but also for its snowy winters. (Hailing from the hottest city in India with a high of 116° F, he has always dreamed of living in a city that freezes with snow. Yay winters!) Prajakt enjoys cooking, which, for him, is a lifesaving skill due to his intrinsic love of spicy food.
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source: suckerpunchdaily
The specific types of drawings that I am interested in all make use of an abundance of lines—some of those lines convey latent geometries while others convey a more whimsical quality that is less explicit in their origins. The intention while producing the drawings was often to make the readings of the lines ambiguous in order to create an interesting visual and spatial effect. An attempt has been made to take these readings and interpret them into a building that mobilizes the absence of the building that was previously on the site.
I am trying to take the stable, inscribed convention of architectural drawings throughout the history of architecture and destabilize them. This destabilization is done in order to open up new possibilities by translating construction lines into constructed objects. The whole point of construction lines is that they only exist in conception of the building. So, when one starts building them and takes them seriously about their real possibilities, the construction lines produce a kind of blurred world around them. This is due to the presence of the absent element. Making those non-actual things actual, the object of this operation produce unique qualities.
The project proposed the reconstruction of the cathedral at Soissons, France, which currently exists only as a facade. The building is currently haunted by the existence of the previous cathedral; it is my intention to provide a strange simultaneous presence of actual and virtual elements.