MIXED-MEDIA
EXERCISES
Designers can become more active interpreters of their architectural representations by recognizing the fundamental differences between the wide range of available representation tools including manual drawing, physical modeling, and digital modeling. Reconciling this spectrum of tools can assist designers in navigating the threshold at the physical and virtual realms of design, and encourage more richly layered design solutions.
The precision of digital modeling, the fluidity of hand-sketching and the tactility of a physical modeling all combine to broaden a designer’s perception of their own work, which in turn makes the work more accessible to others.
Every design drawing is the summation of the process drawings undertaken before its inception. Even if the final iteration of a drawing is composed of one medium, the influence of the previously used representation tools can still be asserted.
The use of media hybridization facilitates "emergence" in all phases of the design process.