Oxygen House Project (Plan/ section study)
Douglas Darden
American, 1951–1996
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.
Medium
Pencil on paper
Dimensions
12 x 12" (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Allison Collins
Accession
1717.2012
Palette
Art Terms
Exhibitions
