ABSTRACT
The architect surveys, gathers, and coalesces diverse contextual influences and communicates these in complex graphic shorthand. Ecological considerations enter this realm and invite change in perspective on relations between projects, sites, and surroundings. A more explicitly ecological approach to architectural design calls for a choreography of overlapping 'image types' at the intersection of spatial configuration, human experience, building behavior, and events and influences on a site. Today, a more consciously artistic and democratic ecological approach to design might employ frivolity as a strategy of efficiency and celebrate the scenography of a multitude of beings in everyday urban environments. An appropriate ecology of graphic intervention, the construction of arrays of image and words, might involve graphic gaps, strategic disturbances, communities of line weights, dashes and dots. The design team identifies a site's roles and gives them names, apt and evocative descriptors capturing with particularity the activating qualities of context and the site's contribution relative to broader urban ecologies.
