San Antoni Library, Barcelona's premiere coffin for books

In your estimation, does your drawing represent the form and materiality of the San Antoni Library?  Elaborate on why or why not? 

The drawing I had made of the San Antoni Library is successful in some respects and short in others, though I partially blame the poor weather for some of its shortcomings. The drawing portrays well two important aspects of the building’s form, that of its proportion and its recessive volumes. In relation to its neighboring buildings, the library takes cue of the existing vertical rhythm to create its volume, as well as void and openings. Within this void the recessive volume becomes important through its relation between the front and back facades, as well as how it serves to connect its flanking volumes. More abstract is the representation of the materials, especially in the case of this particular library. The black, reflective metal of the building serves to provide an intangible quality to the architecture through reflection, much in the way a monument would. (e.g. the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C.) In the drawing I attempt to approach this by showing the physical, vertical lines of the material on the façade, as well as the stratified shadows created by the recessed volume. However, perhaps due to the cloudy weather and lack of light, the building’s reflection was not strikingly clear and hence fairly difficult to put onto paper with pencil alone. Perhaps through another medium, such as watercolor or something similarly transparent, the building’s reflective qualities would have been made more obvious through the drawing.