The following represent a body of analytical drawings investigating Paulo Mendes da Rocha's Museu Brasileiro de Escultura in São Paulo. All the drawings were measured and relied on found sections and plans of the building, using photographs as occasional supplement. (Please excuse the scratches (long vertical or horizontal lines through the drawings) left by the scanner.)
The following twelve drawings represent the final stage of the MuBE series. The first eleven drawings explore the material condition and erosion of MuBE. A vinyl cutter rendered the drawings and was jerry-rigged to allow the use of graphite as medium. A massing drawing was drawn by the machine using graphites of different hardness. The drawings below are ordered as follows: 10H, 8H, 6H, 4H, 2H, F, HB, 2B, 4B, 6B, 8B. The first few drawings were too light to be captured by the scanner, and the last few were done with graphites so soft that they were completely used up before the drawing had been completed. The twelfth drawing also made use of the vinyl cutter. Here some of the previous drawings were explored further. In this drawing the circulatory path of MuBE was made fully linear. Different graphites were used to indicate the path's depth within the building.