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This paper is the result of a pedagogic proposal applied to undergraduatestudents of architecture in order to present new digital design tools and methods.This study aims to connect procedural contents to different design strategiesenrolled by students with special focus on complex geometries. The objective wasto offer the necessary assistance to an appropriated design development, byreducing the habitual mishaps related to the lack of technical skills with digitaltools for both the design reasoning and the subsequent graphic representation ofproposals. As an answer, a new design approach called A-BIM(Algorithmic-based Building Information Modeling) was introduced to students,which integrates BIM platforms with algorithmic modelling software allowing, inthis way, some formal flexibility allied to an adequate graphic documentation.