Recently i have been looking into one of my favourite architectural styles the sky scrapers specifically early ones, For this piece i used ink on a double A1 piece of Fabriano the scale was to give it a large impact to relate to the actual scale of the buildings.The idea came from the exhibition theme of transformation. my idea was to research into the advances in engineering and architecture that resulted in the construction of these monumental towers, to represent this idea i decided to use the home insurance building designed by William Le Baron Jenney, at the time scrapers were being built using load bearing walls due to the size of these buildings , the walls on the ground and lower levels were built extremely thick to cope with the weight of the structure , this caused a problem as these walls would take a lot of the space up,the conclusion was the use of a steel frame , the home insurance building was the first steel frame tower in chicago and so shows a turning point in architectural construction, and so to me was a perfect image to use for the piece.
Hey Naomi, do you still do the architecture doodles?
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