Disegno come modello

Up to a few years ago, the image and representation repertoire of a project, available to architects and designers, was limited to sketches, to technical drawings, to photos and to scale models. Nowadays not only this repertoire is more wide-ranging, but the traditional elaborations and those which are obtained by means of the computer, can easily be transformed the one into the other. So the sketch, articulated in a bit map, becomes the base on which to set up a three-dimensional digital model, and this model may be rendered with photographic accuracy or "printed" in three dimensions by means of numerical control machines. At the same time, a scale model can be converted into a point cloud and this same into a mathematical model. And so on... The variations and the possible transformations are infinite. It seems therefore proper to endow the term "drawing" with wider connotations, those, precisely, which are associated to the model. And the idea arises to organize these models and their metamorphoses in a process that converges towards the project idea, the ideal Model, with which the architect compares himself, in the progress of his work, until the final result.