Wall of Facts

Think of your wall as an arrangement of facts.

One type of element on the wall will work different from the rest of the facts- the indexical diagram. This typically is either your traffic material study or your surface material study, though there are anomalies. This indexical diagram(s) is your project’s touchstone. It grounds a lot of the other facts in a purpose, a goal, or a model.

The rest of the materials on the wall sit as smaller components in a bigger picture much as an east elevation explains only a fragmentary understanding of a building.
Architects represent projects through compilations of fragmentary images that each represents a partial understanding of the work but when knitted together through notation, scale, and concordance in a SET make a comprehensive overview.

Think of the work on your wall as a SET of drawings, images, models, and diagrams that explain a project as thoroughly as possible; each one being a possible fragmentary fact that adds up to project a comprehensive overview of the work.

Projections are the architect’s means to negotiate the gap between ideas and material- Stan Allen in “Constructing With Lines”