Smart Architectural and Urban Heritage: An Applied Reflection

The aim of this paper is to present the use of 3D models and augmented reality (AR) to study and communicate architectural and urban values and, therefore, favor the development of dedicated forms of "smart heritage". The study rises from a reflection on the concept of "heritage", as defined in the international documents, intended as an evolving idea that puts together tangible and intangible aspects. Moreover, digital technologies favor "phygital" applications where the digital dimension support the traditional ones. In this way, AR allows the superimposition of multimedia information to heritage, respecting the historical matter of the artefacts, and supporting a "smart heritage" application. In particular, mobile AR, with real-time and ubiquitous visualizations, offers the opportunity to show past urban and architectural configurations to investigate and describe the transformations that have led to the current configuration, and consequently highlighting the present historical and architectural values of the buildings. Two case studies are presented: the square of St. Basilio Monastery, with its historical transformations, and the Basilica of Collemaggio, a pivotal building in the rites of "Perdonanza Celestiniana"

From direct to digital survey. The Abbey of San Giovanni Battista in Lucoli (L' Aquila)

[EN] Lucoli is a scattered municipality in the area of L Aquila, in the Italian region of Abruzzo. In this place between the mountains of the conca Aquilana stands the Abbey of San Giovanni Battista, an important historic and religious site. Despite the damage suffered caused during the 2009 earthquake, the local people still use it and look at it as a symbol of community. With the aim of analyse and so mitigate the seismic vulnerability, the abbey has been the subject of an architectural survey with direct method in a first step, and then of digital laser scanning survey at a later stage, to integrate and verify the first.Brusaporci, S.; Ruggieri, A. (2022). From direct to digital survey. The Abbey of San Giovanni Battista in Lucoli (L' Aquila). EGE Revista de Expresión Gráfica en la Edificación. (17):56-71. https://doi.org/10.4995/ege.2022.1890256711

Chapter Dal ‘progetto assente’ alla ‘architettura interrotta’. Il ruolo della modellazione digitale 3D nell’analisi storico-critica. Un caso di studio

The 43rd UID conference, held in Genova, takes up the theme of ‘Dialogues’ as practice and debate on many fundamental topics in our social life, especially in these complex and not yet resolved times. The city of Genova offers the opportunity to ponder on the value of comparison and on the possibilities for the community, naturally focused on the aspects that concern us, as professors, researchers, disseminators of knowledge, or on all the possibile meanings of the discipline of representation and its dialogue with ‘others’, which we have broadly catalogued in three macro areas: History, Semiotics, Science / Technology. Therefore, “dialogue” as a profitable exchange based on a common language, without which it is impossible to comprehend and understand one another; and the graphic sign that connotes the conference is the precise transcription of this concept: the title ‘translated’ into signs, derived from the visual alphabet designed for the visual identity of the UID since 2017. There are many topics which refer to three macro sessions: - Witnessing (signs and history) - Communicating (signs and semiotics) - Experimenting (signs and sciences) Thanks to the different points of view, an exceptional resource of our disciplinary area, we want to try to outline the prevailing theoretical-operational synergies, the collaborative lines of an instrumental nature, the recent updates of the repertoires of images that attest and nourish the relations among representation, history, semiotics, sciences

AHBIM per l'analisi stratigrafica dell'architettura storica.

According to potentialities given by BIM (Building Information Modeling) procedures, in the last 10 years many experimentations have been conducted on BIM application to Architectural Heritage (AHBIM). BIM software are tools for information computing and management of buildings in the three-dimensional space. Aim of the paper is to study how BIM models can favor architectural stratigraphic analysis. A workflow for 3D modeling of Stratigraphic Units of the Masonry is proposed; this three-dimensional representation can aid the documentation and the analysis of the construction phases. The case study is the church of St. Vittorino near L’Aquila (4th-12th-18th centuries), characterized by important modification and stratification processes. The church has been surveyed by laser-scanning and digital photogrammetry, consequently a dedicated BIM model has been realized for Stratigraphic Units study

Studies for the Historical-Critical Analysis of a Historical Center. The Case Study of Castel Camponeschi

[EN] Aim of the paper is the historical-critical study of Castel Camponeschi (aka Castello di Prata), a village at about 25 km from L’Aquila city (Italy), with peculiar urban characteristics –a herringbone pattern– probably founded in the thirteenth century and characterized by important phenomena of modification and stratification. The study roots on the direct analysis of the built heritage through the architectural surveying, realized at multiple scales from the urban settlement to the masonry structures. According to the morphology of the historic center, it could be traced to the process of new settlement foundation that characterized the territory –the border between the Papal State and the Frederic’s Empire first, and then the Angevin kingdom–. The analysis of the village requires both a correlation with the natural and anthropic historical context in which it is inserted and, a specific study of masonry equipments, characterized by the re-used of stone elements from the nearby Vestino-Roman town of Peltuinum.Trizio, I.; Brusaporci, S.; Continenza, R.; Maiezza, P.; Tata, A.; Ruggieri, A.; Giannageli, A. (2020). Studi per l’analisi storico-critica di un centro storico. Il caso di studio di Castel Camponeschi. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 1449-1456. https://doi.org/10.4995/FORTMED2020.2020.11444OCS1449145

Immagini? Image and imagination between representation, communication, education and psychology

Il 27 e il 28 novembre 2017 si è tenuto a Bressanone, presso la Facoltà di Scienze del-la Formazione della Libera Università di Bolzano, il convegno internazionale e inter-disciplinare IMMAGINI? Image and imagi-nation between representation, communica-tion, education and psychology / On 27 and 28 November 2017, the Faculty of Education of the Free University of Boz-en-Bolzano held in Brixen-Bressanone the international and interdisciplinary confer-ence IMMAGINI? Image and imagination between representation, communication, ed-ucation and psychology

Digital models for architectonical representation

Digital instruments and technologies enrich architectonical representation and communication opportunities. Computer graphics is organized according the two phases of visualization and construction, that is modeling and rendering, structuring dichotomy of software technologies. Visualization modalities give different kinds of representations of the same 3D model and instruments produce a separation between drawing and image’s creation. Reverse modeling can be related to a synthesis process, ‘direct modeling’ follows an analytic procedure. The difference between interactive and not interactive applications is connected to the possibilities offered by informatics instruments, and relates to modeling and rendering. At the same time the word ‘model’ describes different phenomenon (i.e. files): mathematical model of the building and of the scene; raster representation and post-processing model. All these correlated different models constitute the architectonical interpretative model, that is a simulation of reality made by the model for improving the knowledge

Issues of Historic Town Surveying: Visualizing Urban Values

Aim of the paper is a reflection on the concept of Historical Town and on the issues in its surveying. The background is analyzed to state the more significant topics and to trace an operational line of study. The point of view is the historical-critical methodology for architectural analysis. The urban heritage is seen as a work of art made by the sylloge of architectures and urban spaces, defined by the modification and stratifications processes occurred during centuries. In particular the values of the urban heritage roots on a “relational” system; it can be studied with historical synchronic and diachronic interpretations and values’ judgments, useful to make evident the current characteristics, i.e. what we have to preserve.

The Visual Bride: Representing Tangible Heritage between Digitality and Real Contents

Aim of the paper is to reflect on the visual relationships between the digital heritage from real contents and its tangible reference. First of all the paper analyses the evolution of the Culture in relation to the growth of digital technologies. Then it highlights the role of visual perception and communication. Consequently, it focuses on the nature and characteristics of digital models, intended as complex meta-systems of information. Finally, it points out the multiple dimensions of tangible and digital realities, and how advanced visualizations favour a reciprocal re-mediation

Agroindustria, ambiente e territorio. Metodi e strumenti per la conoscenza e per le politiche ambientali

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