The Importance of Process
SHE IS A SHAPER OF LIGHT, A CREATOR OF SPACE, AND AN ARCHITECT OF MOOD.
On an overcast morning in July, the floorboards creaked underfoot as I silently moved around the second level of an old warehouse building, home to Architect Vesna Trobec’s Surry Hills based practice ‘Studio Trobec’.
Previously a mentor of mine during architecture school, Vesna’s approach to the design process has always struck me as thoughtful and reverent. Her methods are multi-disciplinary in nature; a complex layering of drawing and model-making, both physical and digital.
“It is my view that during the design process, the more ways I can draw upon and interweave my analytical mind, lived experience, and physical body through the act of drawing and making, the more resonant the architectural project becomes.”
Architect Vesna Trobec sorting through her trace paper sketches.
“I have drawn since I was a small child and have never stopped. In present times I combine drawing on trace paper with pencils, charcoals and pastels with making physical models and digitally modelling spaces in the computer, to develop architecture and design. Each of these steps engages different parts of my mind and reveals new possibilities in projects.”
“Collaborating with other designers, theorists, and my clients is another important dimension to my design process. In a successful collaboration, the final result is beyond what any person could achieve alone. Not only this, each collaboration teaches me something that I then carry into all future projects.”
“...a successful architectural project is one that connects its users more deeply with their own emotions and bodies, and in turn their physical world. This applies to designing anything for the built environment, whether a house, a public building, a memorial or a school.”
