ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a specific drawing that, in the Advanced Landscape Studio at University of Greenwich, professor’s term a ‘base drawing’. The base drawing is a composite layered drawing, usually composed as a single-scaled plan or sectional elevation, which brings into close proximity contrasting landscape information. Conventional architectural and geographical drawings of plans and maps are redrawn, rescaled and layered in order to analyse relations across different data sets. The base drawing brings together contrasting local and regional scales, intersects long histories with fleeting events and brings into close proximity spatial, ecological and political information. Digital models are imposed onto hand-drawn maps to articulate the heights and shadows of landforms. Photographs are incorporated into the base drawing but are then sketched over in pencil and pen. The working and reworking of the base drawing through contrasting media and across prolonged periods of time begins to represent the multifaceted landscapes that are being investigated.
