These drawings are from a studio on representation and form, and how the two ideas can impose their influence on each other in the design process. Additionally, this project served as my entry into the Farnsworth House preservation competition, Preservation as Provocation, spurred by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, in which I received an Honorable Mention. 

For my entry I set out to question the role of representation in generating architecture in parallel to the idea of preserving such a site-influenced building that had been betrayed by its very site and context. Can one of Mies’ strongest and most outright built manifestos actually be preserved in the first place? And what would be the role of the intervention in the preservation? For me, the project was an exploration in generating simulacra through representation techniques (the drawings) that would inform the new visitors center, taking ideas from Mies’ first “modern house,” the Villa Wolf and from the Farnsworth House itself to generate an interplay between past, the preserved present, and the real present. For if one were to visit the site one must surely experience all three.