Design may never original, but the process of composition can be. Collage Architecture: Sketching brings out a workflow that is meant to iterate design. It values logic and the collectives over premonition and the individual ego.​ 

The various ways of idea forming and processing varies in speed and developmental engagement:

     an individual thinking on their own is the fastest but it lacks collaborative evaluation,

     verbalizing creates space for interpretation but it lacks clear accord,

     sketching visualizes but it lacks spatialization,

     sketch modeling spatializes but lacks room for interpretation.

Each of these methods should be celebrated and applied where it's appropriate.

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As modelling and visualization software become so easily hyper-realistic and hyper-detailed, we bias its use over all aforementioned methods. Schematic drawings sometimes loses the quality to be variable and disputable. ​Collage Architecture: Sketching returns to the basic; the work is created largely with one physical black pen. It does not use digital tools except for post-process and documentation. The exploration hopes to straddles between rough and tumbled, and constantly fine tuning by layering and modelling. Tweaking lighting and material only exists through physically editing the sketch. 

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The process is humbling and slow. It explores various drawing styles, attitude of design, expression techniques, and design development through quick sketchy visualizations. The product of each set of trials are archived and carried into the next set of experiments. In the end, a final image is produced - the ‘money shot rendering’ - along with an arguably more interesting documented process. This process hopes to become relatable to the beholders that appreciate not just formal qualities, but the operations and conversations that derives it.

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