Enric Miralles, Narration and Creation Through Drawing and Compositions: Fid-Bau Portal

Enric Miralles, Narration and Creation Through Drawing and Compositions

Gilabert Sanz, Salvador / Barros da Rocha e Costa, Hugo Antonio

Abstract The drawing for Enric is not only a form of expression, he goes further, he uses the graphic tools for the genesis of his architecture, his work is born from drawing. Being a work so rich in nuances, it needs all kinds of resources, mixing them without any modesty by drawing compositions at various scales and combining with texts. It is not a drawing to teach with coherence and systematization, it is a drawing that in its construction is becoming a project. The evolution in his way of drawing changes over time in the same way as his way of projecting architecture. From the synthetic drawings in conic view to his more mannerist, colorful and expressive ones, starting from Hostalet project to Mollet del Vallés or Edinburgh Parlament. The drawings in plan were the main strategy, both, sketches and the plan compositions that configured as a sum of information in the form of overlays. These conceptions are directly related to their way of representing the projects, but at the same time understanding that the main intention of Enric Miralles’ drawings was creation. Thus, although at first glance the compositions of drawings in Enric Miralles’s plant are difficult to understand, but in a concentrated look you can see that they contain all the essential information of the project. These plan drawings are not a mere representation of architecture, but at least at the conceptual level they are architecture in itself.