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In the early stages of architectural design processes, designers utilize sketches as visual expression techniques to concretely convey their ideas. Within the realm of design, sketches play a role beyond being merely a means of transmission, contributing significantly to the formation of design knowledge and the development of design thinking. Due to their inherent qualities of freedom, creativity, and flexibility, sketches provide data for visual thinking. Visual thinking entails the visualization of information and mental processes through methods such as sketches, diagrams, and schemas. There exists a continuous, cyclical, and indefinite relationship among design, designer, and sketch, where boundaries are fluid and interactions are constant. Creativity, imagination, visual thinking, and the significance of sketches are well acknowledged in the architectural design process. Towards the culmination of this design process, visual thinking and sketching play dominant roles in the emergence of creative and original products. Beyond merely facilitating the designer's acts of thinking, conveying thoughts, and deriving information, sketches transcend to conceptualize these actions within the mind. Sketching endeavors concretize abstract thoughts in the mind, thereby fostering creative contributions to the development of ideas. The concretization of thoughts leads to the formation of new knowledge, which is subsequently reinterpreted and solidified within the mind. Consequently, new knowledge evolves, facilitating the formation of additional insights. This study delves into investigating the role and functioning of sketches within this systematic process. The aim of this study, which investigates the relationship between imagination, creative thinking, and the development of creative thought through sketching in the architectural design process, is to analyze the sketching process in the early stages of the design process. Sketching, one of the tools utilized during problem identification, problem-solving, and project development in the design process, has been hypothesized to potentially influence designers' cognitive behaviors. The study seeks answers to questions regarding how sketching practices in the early design stages impact the process and what effects they have on designers' cognitive states. To this end, an experiment was conducted as part of the research. A two-stage application was created in a face-to-face setting. Three second-year students from the Department of Architecture participated in the process. Participants were asked to sketch in a traditional setting within a limited time frame to solve a given design problem. Protocol analysis method was employed in the analysis of the sketches. The sketches were evaluated based on content, form, and questioning-solving relationships. Through the analyses and evaluations, the study examined how sketches influence designers' cognitive states.

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