these are images of my process for beginning the salt maker's house. the first is a composite ideogram i composed using found images that relate to the site and the materials/requirements for the project: an inverted locomotive, a brine shrimp, the electron shell of copper, and the chemical composition of salt. each image has its own importance and was carefully selected based on how i imagined the building could possibly appear and function, paying close attention to space (both white and black), depth, contrast, form, and so on. i assembled these images in the same way one would assemble a drawing, and there was nothing arbitrary about the process or the decisions. i simply used this ideogram to supplement a mental sketch, allowing each element to affect the outcome, or what would eventually become the building. from this, i overlaid lines and shapes in developing a drawing that helped me to understand the interaction of space and movement through the building. every piece is connected and every part becomes the whole. this drawing is a sum of its parts and it allowed me to think spatially about the potential of each part within a larger scheme. the last image is an overlay of the drawing on the ideogram, detailing the relationship between the two and highlighting each source of derivation.
