A Series of Questions, a Joining of Parts

This thesis is an exploration of method demonstrated in a series of mechanical drawings of the elements. An investigation of methods of drawing and of how different questions can be asked through drawing.

Furthermore, this thesis asks the question of place in the elements of fire, earth, and sky in the formal relationship between walls, joints, trusses. These architectural elements protect against the natural ones, forming place focused around the hearth.

This thesis traces the formal relationship between the elements of architecture stemming from the German thinker Gottfried Semper's treatise on architecture, but diverges from Semper's fixation with materiality and delves into questions of form, appearance, and construction through drawing.

The drawings address questions about the elements; questions about form, tectonics, and the relation of part to whole. The whole becomes a building focused on forming a place and the relation of the elements to one another.