Name of student: Ping Yan (Amy)

Title of design research project: A Bodied Space

Architectural Drawing: building perspective drawings or conventional drawings that include particular views, sheet sizes, units of measurement and scales, annotation and cross-referencing.

Body Drawing: the output of body expression that reflects both the exterior structure of the space and the interior order of the body.

Performance: an art event in which people behave in a particular way. The performers and audience members experience both a spatial and temporal awareness.

The relationship between the human body and interior design is always my focus and I believe the body, in terms of its scale, is the foundation of any interior space. And people interpret a space not only through conventional architectural draw-ings that explain every detail in a flattened way, but also through experiences which happen in a spatial and sequential way. Therefore performance was chosen as a key form as well as method of my design. Based on the idea of body and perfor-mance in space, all the experiments were made intuitively, while the aspect of drawing was extracted from those projects and was added into the researches as to specify a certain focus. And then the idea of body drawing was gradually synthe-sized. Meanwhile precedents such as Rebecca Horn, Diller & Scofidio and Danielle Wilde were looked into, and readings regarding choreography, inhabitant and psychogeography were also referred to. As my research always involved movement, video became a crucial tool for investigating, and I myself was the model as well as the experimenter that occurred in those videos.Through the mini projects, the notion of body drawing turns out not only to be the mimic or representation of spatial struc-ture, but also to be extended into a procedure of measuring; a pattern marking of physical engagement in the space; a reflection of both exterior surroundings and interior order. Compared to law-abiding plans, elevations and sections, body drawings are more human-centered. So how can body performance become a technique of drawing space? Upon looking into the concept of architectural drawing, can its components be embodied within body performance?