Assistant Professor of Architecture Neyran Turan’s architecture and design firm, NEMESTUDIO, won Architect’s Newspaper’s 2016 Best of Design Award for Architectural Representation in the Digital category for her installation, “Nine Drawings, Seven Models.”
The installation is comprised of nine 80x70 centimenter drawings and seven 30x30x40 centimeter models. Combining NEMESTUDIO's most recent projects altogether in a fictional setting, nine drawings depict one continuous imaginary territory. Recalling the tradition of capriccio painting -- in which architectural ruins are collected into an imagined place where they can be seen all together -- observers are invited to experience and imagine Turan's studio's work all together in the landscape of one large drawing.
In the drawing, each project lands onto an imaginary territory within its original context. As each project gains a new specificity or resolution like a new detail, program or design feature, the projects build novel relationships among each other through their contextual adjacency on this imagined territory.
While depicting one continuous canvas together, each one of the nine drawings uses a particular oblique projection (plan, elevation or cavalier) and complicates the part-to-whole relationship of the collective canvas. The models presented in the installation are meant to demonstrate the elemental language and the typological variations of the studio’s currently ongoing projects.
You can read the award announcement here, or learn more about the installation on NEMESTUDIO’s website.