From Sketch to Architectural Production/Design Process: A Studio Experience

Abstract

The purpose of this text is to determine how the architectural sketches produced by the educator-architect can be transformed by architecture students into an architectural composition and how coherent relationships are established in achieving a holistic outcome product. The method, which is a part of the architectural studio education, starts with the sketches made by the educator-architect instantly for each student separately. The expectation in the design process is a holistic outcome product development that defines a coherent network of relationships from the initial idea sketch. As a result, two groups of orientations were identified as "the ones interpreting the sketch with contextual-formal elements" and "those who created separate situations from the linear character of the sketch" but despite similar orientations, it was found that similar analogy tools were used in the meaning-perception-comprehension phase of the idea sketch. Through this study, the group of students who previously used the sketch process in their design studios with their own practices or experimented with the transition to the third dimension with models by using the sketch process, handled the linear-contextual-formal pattern of the sketch produced by the educator-architect and discovered different orientations of architectural production at this point.