Indicios inesperados e Index: lo real como actor en la simulación de la realidad. El caso de la metodología BIM y el software Heliodon

Abstract

This article explores the relationship between the categories of reality and real, in the digital image framework, specifically in the simulations through the Heliodon software and the conception/construction processes associated with the BIM methodology. The problem of the unexpected actor as an artifact of visual culture arises from this relationship. The fictitious, subjective image corresponds to reality, organized in indexes, and ready to be archived. On the contrary, to the real corresponds the image of the indications, objective, of the potency, the image of the artifact inadequate to the current indexing processes. The hypothesis is that, given the characteristics of the BIM methodology and the simulations of the Heliodon software, it is possible to give space to the unexpected in the field of the image; this is, to the indications of the real in the image of reality. The base on which we build the topic unfolds in four acts: a problematization of the real and its possibilities of action as excluded from reality and its images; a description of how an unexpected actor, the making at the Bauhaus, breaks into an index of conception/realization; an epistemological differentiation between index and traces notions; an argumentation of the possibilities of action that the real presents within the BIM methodology and the Heliodon software.