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The Houses of the Salt Workers in Cervia
Get PDFThe "houses of the salt workers" in Cervia, Italy, are an 18th-century town planning marvel commissioned by the Apostolic Chamber. These buildings, shaped like a bastioned quadrilateral, house salt workers and their families. Despite some deterioration, they maintain their unique charm. They consist of a basement, two above-ground floors, and a spacious attic, with and without courtyards The conservation project, based on drawings produced following a photogrammetric survey, focuses on preserving the original typology, structure, and materials. This includes reconstructing load-bearing walls, reorganizing façade openings, restoring old brick skirting, and enhancing characteristic arches. This complex holds significant architectural and urbanistic importance as one of Italy's few foundation city examples
Structure-from-motion, photogrammetry and H-BIM for Cultural Heritage. The case study of Geisel Library
No full textCAPTURE AND DOCUMENTATION: KAGA PARK
No full textThe article deals with the topic of Historic Building Information Modeling (H-BIM) applied to the historical architecture of an urban park within the Itabashi district of Tokyo. The document will address a methodological discussion concerning the construction of parametric models of historic buildings in the park starting from laser scanner. The research is prompted by the modern need to have databases full of exhaustive information, through which we can preserve the historical heritage present in the Japanese reality, monitoring the conditions and planning the future. This work is carried out in collaboration with the Nihon University of Tokyo, the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, the Itabashi municipality and the Topcon industry. The work is preparatory for the development of the redevelopment project of the park, through the reuse of its buildings, the arrangement of the green and urban furniture pursuing the objectives of maintaining the historical memory of the place and its harmonization in the urban context, creating a further pole of attraction for citizens and visitors
HABANAPP: HAVANA’S ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE A CLICK AWAY
No full textThe research treats the application of technologies related with augmented and virtual reality to architectural and historical context in the city of Havana, Cuba, on the basis of historical studies and Range-Imaging techniques on buildings bordering old city’s five main squares. The specific aim is to transfer all of the data received thanks to the most recent mobiles apps about Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual reality (VR), in order to give birth to an innovative App never seen before in Cuba. The "Oficina del Historiador de la ciudad de La Habana", institution supervising architectural and cultural asset in Cuba, is widely interested in the topic in order to develop a new educational, cultural and artistic tool to be used both online and offline
UAV-BASED SURVEY: THE CASE OF COLONIA VARESE IN MILANO MARITTIMA
Get PDFThe Maritime Colonies are an important part of Italy's cultural heritage buildings. The research focuses attention on a survey with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), using photogrammetry to determine features such as dimensions, object shape, volumes, areas, distances, elevations, and set up the reconstruction of a digital model of the Varese Colony, located in Milano Marittima, in the province of Ravenna. To digitize this structure, it was necessary to use a camera network capable of creating nadir and oblique images with different baselines. The proposed method has proven convincing in real-world application because of its workability, easy implementation, area coverage, and can be used in a wide range of applications on artifacts of many different morphologies
3D Digitization of Architectural Heritage: Habana Vieja in Cuba – Approaching H-BIM
No full textThe project’s principal intention is the developing of structure from motion thematic applied to architecture field in medium and large scale, in order to generate a cloud of points, obtained thanks to a photographic footage, which can later be used during the H-BIM process. The matter of 3D digitalization is nowadays a very current issue for many countries including Cuba. Indeed, the growth of such a technology application for tridimensional restitution of historical buildings it’s here treated by giving special attention on those belonging to Havana’s architectural and cultural heritage. The first chapter means to present which are the methodologies employed to get tridimensional models through photographic shoots, and how those models would subsequently be taken as fundamentals to generate H-BIM integrated models
Virtual reconstruction of a ghost disco: the Woodpecker in Milano Marittima
Get PDFConservation and restoration of cultural heritage and protection of abandoned buildings is possible using new technologies in order to create a knowledge base to maintain the original condition of buildings as long as possible. This paper presents the digital geometric survey, combining photogrammetry and photogrammetry with drone for the documentation of a building located in the Riviera Romagnola. The fundamental task to survey historic buildings, in order to document their geometric and morphological features with very high accuracy, becomes an important incentive for the use of innovative hybrid approach. The building case study is the Woodpecker nightclub built in 1966 and abandoned in 1970 due to a fire that devastated the structure
Traditional Chinese architecture: the transmission of technical knowledge for the development of building heritage
No full textThe contribution outlines the typical elements of Chinese architecture, which combines the sophistication of technical and aesthetic details, and provides rules and criteria for the sizing and assembling standardized construction of different classes of buildings. These building elements are described in detail, through text and images, in the ancient manuals of Chinese architecture. The most significant document for its completeness and excellent state of preservation is entitled Yingzao Fashi: it was written by Li Chieh and published in 1103, after about thirty years of changes and integrations, and has been reissued several times over the centuries by different authors. This manual includes part of the contents of other earlier manuscripts, written since 700. It contains a set of guidelines resulting from the fusion of knowledge related to the theory and practice of building, respectively, transferred through theoretical texts and practical experiences. The contents of this important text were further developed and increasingly refined in other subsequent manuals (e.g., the Gongcheng Zuofa Zeli of 1734 and the Qing Shi Yingzao Zeli - Yingzao Suanli of 1934). The technical knowledge contained in these manuals allows the dissemination of down-handed practices to support the architects, artisans, and carpenters’ activity for constructing traditional works based on a wooden frame structure. The collection of drawings, tables, and rules elaborated over the centuries allows today a deeper comprehension of the genesis and evolution of the main construction elements of traditional Chinese buildings (foundations, beams, pillars, bracketing systems, roofing systems), enabling their analysis, recovery, and reconstruction. Thus, the contribution presents an overview of the important and complex theme of the transmission of technical knowledge in construction through manuals, based on research carried out at the Archive of the BnF - Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris
Quality Tools for Improving a System of Documentation from Cultural Heritage of Habana (Cuba)
No full textThe new technologies solved some of the problems of surveying, for example, accelerating data collecting, yielding graphic models
less subject to interpretation and more adequately corresponding to reality, or offering the possibility to reproduce the graphic models
many times with the view to sharing it with other researchers and scholars. The technology developed in the last twenty years makes
it possible to obtain millions of points almost automatically in ever-shorter spans of time.
The great advantage of the innovative technologies is that they make it possible to create models of objects characterized by a density
of metric and geometric information that no traditional surveying method can yield. This new technologies constitute an useful and
flexible tool to restitute a great part of scientific documentation on Cultural Heritage.
This paper precisely presents the City of La Havana (Cuba): a series of buildings overlooking the five main squares located in its
historic center have been taken into consideration.
The process of surveying is conducted with a set of techniques. The acquired data are observable, empirical and measurable with the
uncertainty level stated a priori and strictly controlled. Moreover, they can be archived and shared, and thus can be assessed
autonomously. Also, all the procedures applied are replicable and therefore it is possible to acquire new sets of information for
making comparisons. The SFM technique was applied to the Cuban case study; Structure from motion technique is a digital
technology able to generate three-dimensional clouds of points departing from simple raster images. Today, digital technologies at
our disposal impose the necessity to analyze in depth hardware and software that work together at all the stages of surveying
(acquisition, elaboration, modelling and – obviously – CAD drawing). On the one hand, it is precisely this equipment that allows one
to acquire points quickly and without difficulties relative to the volume of the object and the detail level (it is possible to survey
artifacts of great dimensions and geometrically complex). On the other hand, the representation of surfaces acquired cannot be said to
be so direct. The more relevant the complexity of the object, the more operations are necessary while difficulty level requisite for its
representation soars. That is precisely why we are wary of the equipment which executes the whole process fully automatically in
favor of semi-automatic processes which allow the operator to intervene in order to select the material, taking into account his
knowledge of history and geometry, and to decide which surfaces will be the best for reconstructing the model with the greatest
fidelity to reality. Each digital model has to be assigned a scale reference in close relationship with its geometric and perceptual
characteristics. We consider it worthwhile to ponder the way in which the information has to be acquired in reference to the
enormous possibilities opened up by digital technologies of surveying and representation
The building materials of Luis Barragán: light and colour
No full textThe aim of this contribution is to investigate the potential offered by a design approach in which light moulds matter and colours reveal the beauty of forms and spaces. In this context, Luis Barragán is certainly the one who, more than anyone else, has masterfully experimented with the use of colour to transform spaces. His architecture employs a language in which the daring use of colour is correlated with an ever-increasing degree of awareness, starting from the earliest conception and realisation. Light and colour do not only play an ornamental role but actually represent his building materials. The paper seeks to show how colour is able to strongly characterise architecture, through the analysis of some of his projects: the Casa Barragán in Calle Ramirez, (1947-48), the Capilla de las Capuchinas in Tlalpan (1952-1955), the Torres de Satélite (1958), the Los Clubes complex (1964-1969), and the Casa Gilardi (1975)
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