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The digital double. From original to variation: architectural representation in the digital era Cover

The digital double. From original to variation: architectural representation in the digital era

Open Access
|Oct 2025

Abstract

In the context of the second digital turn, as it is defined by Mario Carpo in his book The Second Digital Turn, Design beyond Intelligence, the architectural graphical representation suffers a fundamental transformation: the digital tools aren’t anymore only passive tools used for execution, but active cognitive mediums which directly participate in the process of thinking and designing. These new mediums offer the possibility to generate new architectural forms and spaces that don’t derivate anymore from a unique or canonical model, but from variational and iterrational dynamic systems. Thus, the traditional relationship between the original and its copy, in which the double is a faithful reproduction or a translation of a fixed prototype, is destabilized. In the digital logic, the “double” becomes autonomous, it becomes a variation, a unique instance of production.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bipca-2023-0024 | Journal eISSN: 2068-4762 | Journal ISSN: 1224-3884
Language: English
Page range: 33 - 41
Submitted on: Sep 20, 2025
Accepted on: Oct 6, 2025
Published on: Oct 29, 2025
Published by: Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2025 Alexandra Maria Pascotescu, published by Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi
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