To design digitally today is to create a logical structure of data, algorithms and results. This article uses a classic villa by Andrea Palladio, where the mathematical rules are very clear, to exemplify the basic structure of the contemporary digital project; from the exposition of data to the generation of empty form. This requires an initial reflection on technical drawing / CAD / BIM and a description of the languages of the contemporary project. The data and algorithms necessary for the construction of the shape of the villa by means of the topological transformations of a cube are described. This is a contemporary way of understanding the generation of the empty form. A virgin, parametric and flexible format; prepared and structured for the subsequent acquisition of successive layers of project information, which would lead to the virtual twin of the building. Designing through topological transformations is a process already used by architects such as Peter Eisenman, Daniel Libeskind, and Zaha Hadid among others, but it has a theoretical potential that goes beyond these concrete examples or a certain type of architecture. The case of the Villa Rotonda is a good example for understanding the project process without giving as a result a closed and immutable object, but rather an open system that defines the formal identity of the project without conditioning its adaptation to changing requirements over time.

Intentando solucionar problemáticas detectadas en los alumnos que llegan a la carrera de Arquitectura (dificultades en la comprensión lectora y expresión escrita y desconocimiento de diseño gráfico) llevamos tres años realizando un ejercicio en el que colaboramos asignaturas teóricas y prácticas. En las asignaturas de Antropología y Contemporary Art and Architecture trabajan textos teóricos. La asignatura Laboratorio de Geometría y Forma aporta las bases compositivas de una lámina. Se propone al alumno trabajar uno de los textos, seleccionar una parte del mismo y pensar cómo reflejar su contenido utilizando las letras como objeto, de manera gráfica, para diseñar un póster tamaño A2 en el cual se transmita el contenido del texto. Los carteles sirven como iniciación de los alumnos en el diseño gráfico, les ayudan a abstraer los textos y llegar al contenido de los mismos.

The point and the line are simple geometric elements with immense creative capacity. They are the foundations on which the most complex geometries rest and therefore require detailed understanding and attention to achieve full mastery of them. The point and the line are totally connected with the space and the spatial coordinates; the adaptation of the geometric space to the shape facilitates the calculation and the geometric development. They are the basis of geometry, which floods the art world in all its expressions. Painting, sculpture, fashion or music use geometry as a source of inspiration, as an expression of their own being. This article seeks to unify the various existing approaches to reach these basic elements of geometry. Different languages: mathematics, drawing and art and other artistic expressions can define the same geometric object. Our approach is from the point of view of mathematics and contemporary art. Only by knowing these parallel approaches will we be able to master it, understand it and be able to use it freely, at will. This is the path that we seek our first-year Architecture students to follow. They need to master the bases of the form, sometimes very propaedeutic, but without which it would be impossible to establish the later complexity. For this reason, we close this article with three examples of projects carried out by the students, which illustrate the skills acquired and the validity of the method used for integrating knowledge.

El Museo de la Universidad de Navarra (MUN) es un centro dedicado a la difusión del arte contemporáneo a través de exposiciones, eventos, programas, investigación multidisciplinar y enseñanza. Además, como museo universitario, sus tres pilares fundamentales son la creación, la investigación y la diseminación del arte y la cultura contemporánea. Actualmente, el MUN tiene entre uno de sus retos el de dar a conocer su legado a los estudiantes universitarios. El proyecto aquí planteado nace del espíritu interdisciplinar compartido entre el MUN y el Grado en Diseño de la Escuela de Arquitectura -recientemente reconocido este último con el primer premio en la categoría ¿Interdisciplinary Education Models¿ en ¿New European Bauhaus Prizes¿. Se propone profundizar (y mejorar) la relación entre el MUN y los estudiantes del campus desvelando una experiencia docente híbrida a través de dos proyectos diferentes pero complementarios, realizados en el segundo semestre del curso 20-21 por estudiantes de 2º curso.