Types, codes, and algorithms for a perception centered design

This reflection questions on the one hand what the role of rules is in contemporary design and on the other how much, and on the other the extent to which these rules include dimensional or perceptive parameters directly or indirectly linked to the users’ bodies. To this end, the paper is organized around three compositional tools or techniques - type, coding, and parametric design - allowing these rules to be read, written, and informed. In this sense the meaning of the term “rules” is understood in the broadest sense as a possible rule, not given a priori, formulated with a logical process of abstraction based on tradition and experience.