An Unlikely Rome. Towards Performative Geometry

Despite the worldwide popularization of computer-assisted drawing pro-grams in all their variants, the Representation Systems used to develop pro-jects in Architecture have changed very little or nothing. Based on Descrip-tive Geometry for 200 years, in practice there is no renewal of space con-ceiving nor in the way objects are organized and distributed in relation to it. These systems ignore by default all the dynamic, immaterial, sensitive, ran-dom, ephemeral and changing components of the architectural project. An Unlikely Rome reveals, together with the Intersemiotic Translations and Drawings by Machines, a certain gap in Representation, which cannot be saved through the use of CAD based programs. This work confronts us with the complexity of the world on the one hand, and with the capacity of our minds to make decisions in the field of abduc-tion on the other. The goal of this work is to innovate in the Generation of Architectural Space through a process that involves changes in Representa-tion as well as in the generative processes in Architecture. This means treat-ing each difference or alteration as unique without falling into generaliza-tions or simplifications. Representation and Geometry are, overall, defined by what they hide. Let's search, though. An Unlikely Rome starts from a Non-Representation of the city of Rome, hidden behind its own Representation. The reconnection of the nodes through an abductive process provides creative, not programma-ble by computer, systematic, complex new answers.