Exploring Analogue Resolution | Berlin, Germany | Unit 21 | 2025

This project explores the role of pencil drawings within the design process, and aims to understand the resolution of analogue media in architectural development and representation. The development of a drawing machine creates complex time-based drawings as the machine responds to the input of the author. The developed methodology has been applied to the unit’s focus in Berlin, and plays with contrasting scales through the projection of spatial structures. Investigating Tempelhof Feld, which is a site of rich social and political context, the project aims to develop a new method of generating architecture through analogue medium. The site is pulled apart, encoding past histories to develop new ones through speculative drawing processes. Incorporating technically driven digital workflows and fabrication techniques into the execution of the architectural resolution provides a dynamic contrast to the analogue suite of tools. The hybrid methodology generated through drawing in-between analogue and digital technologies enables an exploration of the relative resolution of each workflow, and facilitates conversations between the drawings and their authors.

Tempelhof Redrawn The site is divided into its constituent parts and re-drawn using the machine, and then re-assembled.

A Machined Masterplan A new masterplan is drawn using fragments of information from the site that are projected out using the drawing machine, these strips are re-oriented atop the original drawing and seven building sites can be defined.

K_02 Compiled CAD Drawing A compiled drawing of the primary building, K_02.

A New Tempelhof Feld A series of renders produced for the project, illustrating the relationships generated between the existing site, the landscape, and the architecture.

Final Film A summative film produced throughout the project, recording the digital/analogue hybrid method of working, and the development of an architectural resolution within Berlin.