Protodocuments

The first work stage is the development of a ‘proto-document’. Each student receives several recognized architectural plans and sections (recognized by the critique) that uses as material to build the protodocument by cut&paste skills. Each of the documents received is a matrix image, and the result will be another bitmap image with predefined size (DIN-A1). Fragments are cut from each of the original documents and later assembled in the protodocument through an intuitive, quick, unprejudiced and unconcerned process.

The protodocument is the drawing that triggers the project, and can do it because has all the information able to build it. It is an image potentially full of architecture that needs from the student a process of estrangement on the documents that receives. He or she must be able, at first, to get away from them and from their conventional meanings in order to, next, work with these drawings triggering the procedure that will shape each proposal. The different informations will end up negotiating with each other and making a single document, where the cut&paste process will have been in charge of making compatible a priori different informations. A document build with compatible informations but not encoded.

In short, this is a process exclusively guided by the affinities that the producer establishes with the original material, there is no more context than the action itself, nor exists any reflection about the way that action could have. The protodocument starts and ends in itself, is an architectural corpse make with remnants that finds its validity in the amount (the quality does not matter here) of information that is capable of get rid of.

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