From sketch to illustration - representation techniques as the basis for classifying methodological patterns in the architectural design

Abstract

Architecture, which always simultaneously anticipates both abstract and realistic spaces, in the first phases of design communicates between the abovementioned extremes through architectural drawings (sketches, renderings, drafts). The techniques by which the architect communicates between the world of thoughts and the world of the building represent the ideas and contexts from which space is created. This paper deals with the analysis and classification of methodological patterns, assumed on the basis of the representation technique applied in the initial abstract design phases. It is intended, through typical practices, to point to different qualitative connections between the technique and the architecture that supports them.