Representation of temporality in plans for flexible housing projects

Abstract

This article presents a research work that reflects on some resources that allow the time dimension to be included in a two–dimensional graphical representation. Bearing this objective in mind, a series of drawings for housing plans is analyzed, which includes projects and constructions built throughout the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century. In the selected plans, two different modalities of flexibility are analyzed: on the one hand, proposals that involve cyclical transformations and, on the other hand, proposals that include evolutionary transformations. The analysis of the drawings is intended to study the relationships between the project ideas that support the proposals and the graphic resources used by designers to communicate them. In this sense, the analyzed drawings can be understood as a graphic discourse on the architectural project. The study concludes with a classification of the different graphic strategies used in the analyzed examples. The said classification is presented in a table in which diagrams are used to synthesize the resources applied to the drawing and graphic organization of plans.

Keywords

• graphic discourse
• flexibility
• project
• graphic resources
• spatial transformation