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The present research is mainly focused on the development of a system that wouldbe able to offer the potentiality of constructing free-form surfaces by usingdevelopable surfaces. Through a deep revision of pre-computational traditionalgeometric systems based on the classical Descriptive Geometry, after are-interpretation that design and algorithmic generation tools allow by usingcomputers and digital fabrication hardware as testing ground, a geometriccontrol process has been designed in order to offer the possibility of managingdouble-curvature complex forms and their adaptation by using developablesurfaces. The focal point of this system is proving how developable surfaces aresuitable to build architectonical elements at real scale.