Bernard Tschumi, Le Fresnoy

These images have been taken from the book Tschumi, Le Fresnoy, Architecture In/ Between. These drawings have been made whilst Bernard Tschumi had been creating Le Fresnoy. 

The drawing above is from an elevation drawing of Le Fresnoy. The floors are drawn in white and then the details, such as stairs, room divides and ceilings are drawn in black. This all has been drawn against a dark brown background. The part of the drawing I find most interesting is the light quality that has been drawn into the image. You can see where the light source is and how it could then project into the space of Le Fresnoy.  

The drawing above is another of Le Fresnoy. I think that this appears to be a plan, of the light projection. There is a square box made up of arrows so this could possibly be the flow of the natural light through the building. You can also see the main source of light, shown in a solid form, and how it projects into the space. This is shown by the light fading out into the drawing, similar to the elevation. The dotted lines that you can see almost suggests that the lights can be moved around the space from point to point. 

This is a really nice technique that has been used to make these drawings and would like to apply it to the drawings that I have made of the artificial light on the South Bank, shown below.    

Tschumi is fascinated by cinematic montage, which he sees as linked to the relationship between architectural space, movement, and the "architecture-event," or action within space. This drawing below shows a montage of filmstrip "beams" in which events generate from and continue to unfold as life takes shape in the complex. These images below are from the drawings series that were made for Le Fresnoy.

Looking at both of the images, the monochrome one was drawn first. Then came the second version which is a development of the first. The only part which has colour added to it is the forms that have been generated by events shown in the film strip. The coloured forms that have been included in the drawing are also showing light projection. After looking at these drawings I think that these would have been the first part of the drawing process for Le Fresnoy. Once these have been drawn, they were then translated into the drawings with the light projection.