Session III - PARAMETRIC MODELLING AND VIDEO MAPPING_INTRODUCTION

Abstract

Virtual representation, free-form surface modelling techniques and numerical control manufacturing, with their intrinsic dynamic and interactive capabilities, have profoundly expanded and enriched the repertoire of geometric shapes, generating innovative design skills and creative languages. There is no doubt about the opportunities for exploration, contamination, relationships and overlapping of ideas, measurements and information, which the continuous evolution of expeditious, parametric and automatic procedures brings to the use of the many products of the information age. Adopting computation as a form of design is profoundly different from simply using tools geared toward increasing the productive capabilities of the designer. This approach implies first of all an extension of design actions to techniques and strategies, whose main strength is measured in the ability to promote new and different ways of thinking. The added value of digital culture is rooted in the complementarity and synergy of all graphical and expressive methods of architectural language, hinging on the foundations of Scientific Representation. The latter play a basic role for infographics, constitute an essential cultural baggage and enrich the researcher with the awareness of possessing the tools of knowledge and governance of the geometric properties that regulate space, in order to be able to both read and communicate the design.