The first step of the « Mesures » phase was to draw the object we had chosen. Ours was the stone temple you can see above, a small decorative item with a strongly organized geometry. Even if it’s not obvious that this object plays a fundamental role in the garden it is located, we thought that this ability to see « under six different views » made it a central element of the garden and in our Story, in which it sees everything around it.
Our purpose in our drawings was to explore that quite well known object under more unusual angles, that’s why we choose a wide variety of angular positions in our different drawings, to show how such a geometrical object could be seen differently even if each one of its six faces are almost identical.
The two cutting axis were chosen to cut the object symmetrically, but just like the other, from a slightly tilted angle that makes it look different as what we would expect from a perfect hexagonal shaped object.
Once again, the main idea here is to represent the object from another unusual angle, as even if the plan sections are slightly different from the elevations, choosing the same angles wouldn’t have given much more informations. The section plans are chosen to cut through two very different geometries, the round upper part and the hexagonal basis.
For the axonometry and the perspective of the object, we chose to use a mure usual front-angle, as they are more rigorous and difficult to understand. We also wanted to show the geometrical organisation of the object, as it is a big part of its structure.