Museum Of Digital Drawings

Location: Shatwell Farm, Somerset

Programme: Museum Of Digital Architectural Drawings

Considering the shift of architectural practice from physical to digital, the museum proposes a new typology for exhibiting digital architectural drawings.

The building is a digital architectural drawings’ museum situated in Shatwell Farm, Somerset. The building is less like a habitable architecture and more like a palimpsest diagram of digital drawing experiences. With emerging technologies that blur the boundaries between imagination and reality such as VR and AR, the proposal merges together the potential of the digital and the analogue exploring new types of experience.  The project suggests that the future of drawing and of understanding drawings comes with technology’s capacity to make scale and time malleable. The museum allows drawings to escape static planarity and become platforms of digital storytelling through its kinetic structure.

With starting point the Drawing Matter Collection in Somerset, the project looks at the misrepresentation of digital artefacts in the collection and imagines a future for the Drawing Matter archive. It becomes a museum of digital architectural drawings CAD, BIM and Pointclouds and through its physical architecture, it becomes a watermark, attributing value to these digital drawings. The museum is experienced both in physical and virtual realities.