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Abstract. Traditionally, the architect designed projects with a constructive control over their geometry. This meant that the characterization of form is progressive but it is closed at each stage of project.
However, nowadays parametric design has exceeded the constraints of closed form observed in traditional design introducing a shift of paradig...
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... Desde el punto de vista de la ideación arquitectónica, por encima de todas las demás consideraciones al respecto de la cultura digital, lo que probablemente ha constituido el cambio más profundo es el que se refiere a la forma abierta -Marcos (3). Los diseños parametrizados y la arquitectura algorítmica han modificado el proceso de proyecto porque elaboran diseños codificados, esto es: geometrías definidas a partir de códigos y parámetros en lugar de la tradicional materialización de la forma -cerrada-en unos dibujos o unas maquetas -reales o virtuales, esto es indiferente-. ...
Las nuevas tecnologías en el ámbito de la arquitectura han ido conformando un nuevo paradigma proyectual, especialmente a partir de las dos últimas décadas. El cambio sustancial se ha producido cuando el software, cada vez más potente, ha pasado de su condición instrumental como poderosa herramienta de representación de la arquitectura al ámbito de la ideación y del proyecto de arquitectura; especialmente cuando los diseñadores han tenido acceso a modificar el propio código -Mantzou (1), como sucede en el diseño parametrizado. Obviamente, el instrumento no es inocente y los resultados acaban siendo mediatizados por él.
The essay deals with the themes of digital representation of architecture starting from several years of teaching activity which is growing within the course of Automatic Design of the degree course in Engineering/Architecture in the University of Trento. With the development of CAD systems, architectural representation lies less in the tracking of a simple graph and drawn deeper into a series of acts of building a complex digital model, which can be used as a data base on which to report all the stages of project and interpretation work, and from which to derive final drawings and documents. The advent of digital technology has led to increasing difficulty in finding explicit connections between one type of operation and the subsequent outcome; thereby increasing need for guidelines, the need to understand in order to precede the changes, the desire not to be overwhelmed by uncontrollable influences brought by technological hardware and software systems to use only in accordance with the principle of maximum productivity. Formation occupies a crucial role because has the ability to direct the profession toward a thoughtful and selective use of specific applications; teaching must build logical routes in the fluid world of info-graphics and the only way to do so is to describe its contours through method indications: this will consist in understanding, studying and divulging what in its mobility does not change, as procedural issues, rather than what is transitory in its fixity, as manual questions.
