Nasa Design Competition 2016 - 2017

A parallel projection has a unique capacity of levelling the human eye and its perspective. It levels all indentations to a singular surface, to the extent that it denies the perception of actual form / space / reality. 
A few centuries ago the miniature paintings from the North West frontiers of the Indian subcontinent perfected the art of planometric space and representation. From cities, palaces, landscapes, streets, homes and so on, these were perhaps our first views into the realm of the third dimension of form and space.
As all art / representation, any such project intends to connect to the spectator, an audience. This parallel perception of space and all other elements within that are part of the project / architecture / art work, thereby became a way of seeing and imagining space. 
The western concept of perspective in drawing / painting, architecture, landscape and sculpture on the other hand, was comparatively different whether it is a single point perspective or two point perspective.
Here we suggest that the notion of parallel projection – the idea of extending the limits of coordinates of form /body becomes an interesting space to explore how we imagine our cities, architectural form and time.

The exercise is about representation of the city and its architectural form in its most interesting way of reinterpretation. This is an open ended exercise for a wide spectrum of ideations and to develop new ways of imagination of the city / its planning / form. As in the book of Italo Calvino – Invisible Cities, our memories construct innumerable subjective ways of writing and talking about places that we see / remember / imagine. Limiting the expression to the mode of innovative drawing is a means of finding a connect, and looking at possible new narratives that operates through drawing as a space.