Technical Drawings

A set is designed, engineered, fabricated, assembled, and loaded in and out dozens of times — and then, in most productions, destroyed without ever having been drawn as it stood. Technical Drawings records the physical body of live and spatial work — sets, stages, installations, exhibition architecture, and the technical systems that serve them — with the documentary rigor the building trades reserve for structures meant to last centuries.

The practice drafts and models to professional standards, including BIM protocols under the ISO 19650 series, and the dual-use principle reaches its purest form here: a model made with fabrication-grade rigor is the record of the set’s geometry. A drawing exact enough that a workshop could rebuild the piece from it — dimensions, materials, assemblies, tolerances — is, brought to as-built state, the definitive account of what actually stood on the stage or in the gallery. Nothing is redrawn for posterity; the archive is the drawing.

Because the drawings are archival, the work can travel: venue adaptation drawings let a documented piece be rebuilt elsewhere, and as-built documentation records the work as it finally existed — which is never quite the work as it was first imagined.

The service documents the built world of a work wherever it stands — stages, galleries, found spaces. It never designs that world: the drawings record decisions made by others, as they were finally built.