Dining Table Study
This study explores how architectural drawing can represent both the passage of time and the perception of its speed. Inspired by Sarah Wigglesworth‘s dining table—a study that visualizes movement and entropy through the traces of dining—I reinterpreted the drawing to examine how time can be communicated through architectural representation.
The study is composed of two drawings. The top view illustrates the actual passage of time, showing the spatial and physical changes that occurred without accounting for perception. The perspective view, however, translates how time felt—whether it seemed to move faster or slower than it actually did—through the use of line types, color, and distortion. Solid lines denote moments of clarity and stillness, while dashed or fading lines suggest fleeting or uncertain intervals. Shifts in color intensity represent the subjective density of time, revealing moments that felt either extended or compressed.
Through this experiment, the project tests how architectural drawing conventions—traditionally used to depict static space—can instead be used to communicate experience and temporality. By visualizing both objective and perceived time within a single framework, the study repositions architectural drawing as a medium for storytelling, capable of expressing not only where events happen, but how they are lived.