Introduction
A hand-measured survey of nineteenth-century doorway surrounds, redrawn in ink at a consistent scale.
Concept / Research
Twelve doorways were recorded across four streets. Drawing them at one scale makes the small deviations between nominally identical surrounds legible.
Process
Each surround was measured by hand, photographed square on, then redrawn. Discrepancies between the measured and the apparent were kept rather than corrected.
Drawings
Elevations and mouldings at 1:20, with the profile sections at 1:5.
Final work
The completed set reads as a catalogue of near-repetition rather than a type.