Oxygen House Project (Plan/ section study)

Douglas Darden

1988

A pencil-on-paper plan and section study in which Douglas Darden explores the mechanics, scale, and spatial arrangement of a speculative “Oxygen House,” working out stairs, trusses, and a suspended element by hand.

The page reads like a working thought: delicate, tentative pencil strokes, a small sketched figure for scale, angled cables and a hovering circular form, and scattered notes that make the drawing feel immediatedly investigative and atmospheric.

This drawing exemplifies a late-20th-century architectural practice that treats hand sketching as a generative, narrative tool—testing ideas about structure, tension, and space rather than producing a finished construction document.

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