During this week-long workshop, students explored ways of documenting, narrating, and preserving architectural elements through graphic means — a spatial archive of the school’s immediate surroundings.

Each student selected an architectural element within a fifteen-minute walk: an arched brick doorway, a ventilation pipe, a manhole cover, and so on. Through a series of writing and image-based exercises — each building on the previous — the students produced a diverse body of work that captured the form, texture, context, and stories embedded in their chosen element.

They then undertook the process of editing, designing, and printing an edition of their archival materials, which were collectively bound into a single book. The outcome was a collection of graphic records that preserve the details and associations of architecture often overlooked in everyday life.

The workshop became an experiment in observation, graphic communication, self-publishing, and giving space to unnoticed details.

Guest teacher Orin Bristow is a graphic designer and educator based in Copenhagen.