Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao said she found finalised visualisations can become obstacles in the creative process following her first residential project. Her client had been surprised by the result, because he had a fixed idea in his mind based on an early rendering.

In an interview with Dezeen, Bilbao said: “I want my architecture to be a platform for anyone to create their own way of living. I think a collage accepts all of those personalities, diversities and complexities that are not only my ideas.

“A collage also accepts processes, it accepts mistakes. I like to think that our buildings are the same.”

On her first residential client, she added: “He stopped following the process because he fixed an image into his mind. I thought, this could be very dangerous and damaging to the creative process.

“I totally believe that the process is a dialogue and obviously in that case it became only a monologue, because my mind evolved and his mind stayed with that image.

“After that we banned renders from our process, until the very end,” she said.

Bilbao’s work is currently on show at the Louisiana Museum in Denmark.