The incorporation of new forms of representation in architecture is closely linked to the design process. Even though we design with an awareness of how space is experienced, these forms of representation do not take into account the dimensions related to the experience of the body and the other senses, nor the memory and meaning of space.
In light of this challenge in representing lived experience, this paper explores the incorporation of representation techniques—such as storyboards and animatics—into workshop instruction, which allow students to express the emotional resonance of the remembered space.
In particular, this paper describes a workshop exercise held in Concepción, in southern Chile, during the urban context analysis phase. The question posed is how the introduction of the storyboard and its digitized, animated version—the animatic—can incorporate subjectivity, an intangible dimension of space, into architectural design education.
Architect Aroztegui earned her master’s degree from the University of Utah and her Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in the United States. She is currently working as a FONDECYT postdoctoral fellow in Concepción, Chile, researching the incorporation of life stories into the representation of architectural space.