Tengku Sharil and Ewa Roztocka depict ‘a real-time encounter with many futures at once’ on an epic scale to secure 2nd place, student, in Eye Line 2024
Second place, Student
Tengku Sharil and Ewa Roztocka
Princeton University School of Architecture, USA
Analyse this image for a moment and what do you see? Is it a snapshot of someone’s design desk, a strange visual narrative or a random ‘cabinet of curiosities’? In fact, Projective evitalization: Architecture Prosthetics for Spare Capacity is ess a drawing than a document of possible futures for a redundant New Jersey office, envisaging ‘a new mode of creation that fundamentally forbids demolition…that wasteful erasure is a necessary precursor to change’. Sharil and Roztocka’s study is a ‘50-year projected future archive showing the myriad possibilities for the defunct building, its structure as an open-ended network of model, text and material insists on indeterminacy’ depicting ‘a real-time encounter with many futures at once’.
Wigglesworth was struck by the epic scale in the quotidian nature of representation, a level of detail that Kucharek liked too, thinking: ‘it contains so many things germane to the design process, a sort of mix and match of elements. It talks about one building’s possible future but any design could be represented this way.’ Ramstad agreed. ‘It effectively describes the process of design, like a giant “mood board” of regulatory guidance, massing and material studies – all beautifully rendered.’
The work left Chou wondering whether the drawing itself was sufficiently propositional, feeling that ‘as an image there’s a really ice visual focus to it but while it’s working hard enough, it isn’t quite working smart enough’, but even she came round to its taxonomy of possibility. ‘At the end of the day it’s a really excellent example of storytelling,’ concluded Ramstad.
Eye Line award winning drawings from this and previous years