The design process of an architect is, in a way, a guessing game. Sketches and models produced by hand and limited by the production space in which the architect works, can only capture pieces of an idea. This idea is to be translated, after further refinement through inputting commands into a computer, into a built structure. Very few professions move from something abstract to something so concrete. And it is even rarer to find a profession which must negotiate with the thoughts and capabilities of others to achieve the concretization of an abstract thought into the daylight. The architect must employ multiple tools to translate the conceived solution, one of the aspects that binds all of these tools is scale. Scale helps to give the sketch authority to be the originator of a window detail. Scale allows the client to see themselves within a 600 sqft. structure when viewing a model that occupies no more space than a tabletop.
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