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Multidisciplinary Approach for the Knowledge of Historical Built: Digital Tools for the Virtual Restoration

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Digital Restoration and Virtual Reconstructions

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The identification of strategies to be implemented for the restoration of cultural heritage, considered in its broad meaning, results from complex knowledge path. This process involves different disciplines collecting information for the cultural heritage safeguard and identification of innovative solutions that support the professionals and administrators in the conservation actions. At the same time, the advances in digital technologies provided novel solutions capable of supporting the knowledge, conservation and valorisation processes of built heritage. Based on these assumptions, the paper deals with a solution based on Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Virtual Reality (VR) techniques for addressing the issues concerning the processes of cultural heritage. The digital environment is suitable for managing an operative procedure that integrates the methods traditionally used by the restoration and archaeology of buildings disciplines to converge in the virtual restoration of a historical artefact. The HBIM model of the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria in Fontecchio (AQ) is developed starting from the in-situ investigation of the artefact. The model integrates multidisciplinary data with the aim of planning and designing proper restoration interventions for the examined asset, making these visible within the digital model and Virtual Tour in the perspective of virtual restoration. The strength of the proposed solutions is the virtual intervention of restoration actions on the artefact replica that is not a simple reproduction of the real but a digital object that communicates with a wider audience and facilitates the design and the comparison between alternative solutions, promoting the e-conservation paradigm.

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Although the research presented is the result of the authors’ collective work and continuous comparison, it is credited to Ilaria Trizio the Sect. 2, Adriana Marra the Sect. 3, and Francesca Savini the Sect. 4. All authors wrote Sects. 1 and 5.

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Acknowledgements

The research is part of the activities of InnResLab, a laboratory of innovation and research within the Institute for Construction Technology of Italian National Research Council and directed by Ilaria Trizio.

The authors are grateful to the municipal administration of Fontecchio (AQ), in particular, the mayor Dr Sabrina Ciancone, for granting the experimentation. They thank Andrea Ruggieri for the laser scanner survey, Marco Giallonardo for the photogrammetric survey, and Alessio Cordisco for implementation the spherical panorama from the HBIM model. Finally, the authors also thank Giulia Ciotti, Leonardo del Vecchio, and Berardino Scafati, students of the course of “Rilievo e modellazione digitale dell’architettura” at the University of L’Aquila held by Ilaria Trizio, for the geometric restitution of the church.

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    Adriana Marra, Ilaria Trizio & Francesca Savini

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Marra, A., Trizio, I., Savini, F. (2023). Multidisciplinary Approach for the Knowledge of Historical Built: Digital Tools for the Virtual Restoration. In: Trizio, I., Demetrescu, E., Ferdani, D. (eds) Digital Restoration and Virtual Reconstructions. Digital Innovations in Architecture, Engineering and Construction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15321-1_13

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