Diana Atieh

Bad Harmonics is a series of poster drawings that explores how architectural representation can move beyond describing buildings to expressing human experiences and emotions. Through seven speculative worlds at various scales — including a rave, restaurant, tea house, hammam, sleep laboratory, and rest stations — everyday actions become visible forms of collective energy, proposing architecture as something shaped as much by participation as by physical construction.

Borrowing from the visual language of assembly manuals and technical diagrams, the drawings combine exploded axonometrics with atmospheric color, layered details, and graphic compositions that invite viewers to move between technical understanding and visual discovery. Rather than simply explaining how a building functions, the posters are designed to communicate a new atmosphere and human presence.

At its core, Bad Harmonics explores image-making as an architectural act, using drawing not only to represent design, but to imagine new ways of experiencing it.