Henry Cheung_Idroscalo

chronophilia + roma studio

Time is nonlinear.

Time can be reshuffled, altered, and projected. Time is often interwoven with architecture–oscillating apertures and façade systems to material durability and sustainability. The morphology of urban design utilizes time as a measuring device–scrutinizing shifts in population, geography, development, and natural phenomenon. Time is inherent to architecture. However, representing time through drawing is often obscured and foreign. By developing a chronographic diagram and a documentation machine that filters information within a digital field book, connections and like-linkages can be made.

In Il Punto, la Linea, e il Piano, the chronographic diagram suspends an object of scrutiny in space while sectional planes are being cut into it, revealing multiple chronographic sections. These sections can be cut again revealing more information and complexity about the past, present and future. This method of representing time is intrinsic and fused into the digital field book – through lines, hybrid drawings, photograph, and extractions. Threatened by social and political demolition and natural flooding of the Tyrrhenian Sea, Idroscalo, a squatter town populated by non-coded semi-permanent structures is defined by flux, change, and instability. Idroscalo urges for an urban design intervention that retains its genealogical narrative while enhancing the urban context. This digital book will attempt to inform and propose various interventions and projects for Idroscalo through the lens of chronophilia. This digital field book is a collection of research, process drawings, photographs of locality and models, representational techniques, interventions, and proposals. The book was developed over a course of ten weeks in Los Angeles, Barcelona, Rome, Venice, Sorrento, London, and Paris.