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"

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

La Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Abate a Rieti di Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola, sec. XVI. Rilievo e restauro

Questo libro è sintesi di due tesi di laurea quinquennale in Ingegneria Edile - Architettura EU presso la Facoltà degli Studi dell'Aquila, frutto di un ampio e inteso lavoro di ricerca condotto in collaborazione tra il Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Edile - Architettura e Ambientale (DICEAA) e il Centro di ricerca della Facoltà di Ingegneria Civile e Industriale del polo reatino della Sapienza di Roma (CRITEVAT). Considerate le dimensioni e la complessità dell'organismo architettonico, delle analisi da svolgere e del materiale da reperire è stata necessaria la collaborazione di entrambe le autrici che hanno seguito un percorso di assoluto rigore sul piano della impostazione teorico - metodologica. L'oggetto delle tesi di laurea è la Chiesa di Sant’Antonio Abate, progettata da Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola (1507-1573), che fa parte del complesso dell’ ospedale di S. Antonio di Vienna a Rieti, già esistente alla prima metà del XIV sec., e ubicato sul tracciato delle antiche mura romane. Il Vignola oltre ad essere conosciuto come progettista fu anche un famoso trattatista e il lavoro comprende anche lo studio del suo trattato "Regola delli cinque ordini dell'architettura" del 1562 in cui egli presenta definiti rapporti proporzionali per gli ordini architettonici. Nel testo viene proposta una puntuale analisi storico - critica con espresso giudizio di valore sia rispetto alla istanza storica che alla istanza estetica. Per garantire l'esattezza delle analisi ci si è affidati alle più moderne tecnologie di rilevamento strumentale in continuità con una cultura del rilievo come momento indispensabile di conoscenza. Infine viene proposto un progetto di restauro attento ad ogni aspetto della realtà architettonica.This book is a synthesis of two five-year theses in the Faculty of Engineer - Architecture EU of the University of L'Aquila, as a result of extensive and intensive research work carried out in collaboration between the Department of Civil Engineer, Architecture and Environment (DICEAA) and the Research Center of the Faculty of Civil Engineering of La Sapienza of Rome (CRITEVAT). Considering the size and complexity of the architectural organism, it was necessary to collaborate with the two authors who set a path of absolute rigor on the theoretical-methodological setting. The subject of the thesis is the Church of Sant'Antonio Abate, designed by Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola (1507-1573), which is part of the complex of San Antonio hospital in Rieti, which was already in the first half of the 14th Century, and located on the route of the ancient Roman walls. Vignola, besides being known as a designer, was also a famous treatiser and the work also includes the study of his treatise "The Rule of the Five Orders of Architecture" of 1562, in which he has defined proportional relations for architectural orders. The text proposes a timely historical-critical analysis with an express judgment of value both with regard to the historical instance and the aesthetic instance. In order to ensure the accuracy of the analysis, we have been entrusted with the most modern instrumental tracking technologies in continuity with a culture of relief as an indispensable moment of knowledge. Finally, a project of restoration is planned, attentive to every aspect of architectural reality and respectful of the authenticity of the historical testimony

The Renaissance proto-parametrization: a project tool

The chapter proposes the definition of a workflow aimed at the BIM modeling of historical architectures referable to the classical language of Renaissance treatises. Through the experimentation on a case study conditioned by pre-existences, the authors exploit the potential offered by BIM software to contain standardized and rewritable information through the management of the temporal phases. Starting from the discontinuous model, ideal geometries are defined using a continuous mathematical language. These geometries are gradually adapted to the case study by consecutive steps of modification. The different phases of the modeling are recorded in the database, favoring the transparency of the process. HBIM thus becomes an instrument not only of modeling and documentation, but also of analysis and interpretation of the architectural complexity of the historical built heritage

Augmented Reality for Historical Storytelling. The INCIPICT Project for the Reconstruction of Tangible and Intangible Image of L’Aquila Historical Centre

The urban landscape of the city of L’Aquila has undergone profound changes because of the 2009 earthquake. In particular, there has been a gap between the tangible immanence of places, outcome of history that brought them to the present, and the dimension of the intangible as the intersection between memory and everyday life. In this context, applications of augmented reality offer themselves as an instrument of intersection between history and memory. Augmented reality becomes a complex storytelling tool, where the balance between the authoritative aspect of history and the participative re-meaning of urban sites can be summarized

Il rilievo della chiesa di S. Antonio Abate a Rieti del Vignola. Regola, ordini e proporzioni

La chiesa di Sant' Antonio Abate rappresenta una interessante sperimentazione del Vignola sul tema della chiesa ad aula con cappelle laterali, coperta a volta a botte lunettata, e priva di transetto. Un accurato processo di rilevamento integrato, condotto con tecnologie avanzate di laser scanning e fotogrammetria digitale, favorisce l'approfondimento della lettura storico-critica dell'organismo architettonico, in particolare attraverso analisi metrologiche e proporzionale, e nel verso di una comparazione tra ordini architettonici, della navata interna e della facciata, e la Regola.Vignola used the Church of Sant' Antonio abate to experiment with the design of a single nave church with side chapels, a barrel vault with lunnettes, and without a transept. This meticulous integrated survey used advanced laser scanning techniques and digital photogrammetry to provide a historical and critical interpretation of the church based on metrological and proportional anlyses and also on a comparison between the architectural orders of the internal nave and facade and the Regola