Il disegno narrato. Esplicitare algoritmi per insegnare la modellazione digitale | The Narrated Drawing. Explicating Algorithms for Teaching Digital Modelling

The tools for architectural design have rapidly evolved in recent years, integrating manual design with the use of the computer: through increasingly advanced tools the latest digital platforms, if wisely used, allow a deep and transversal control of the design and construction process, favoring the management of levels of complexity that the technical design does not allow to pursue. Without renouncing the expressive and ideative capacity of manual design, the new tools work efficiently on the relationships between logic and form, geometry, and attributes. The paradigm of design has changed, a change already underway in professional practice, which must be integrated within the academy; only in this way will digital procedures be fully dominated by future designers to obtain projects with an ‘ethical’ form. The present contribution aims at critically reasoning about these instances, between theory and technique, accompanying the narration with some interesting and original didactic experiences that explore the integration between different knowledge, investigating possible connections between a rigorous geometric/logical/formal approach typical of visual programming systems (VPL - Visual Programming Language) using explicit representation.