Process of understanding of building’s characteristics and their appropriate visual documentation. Traditionally, architectural survey is organized according to the following steps: the preliminary study and acquisition of documents; the surveying design; the measurement; the restitution with interpretative models. The digital technologies of laser scanning, digital photogrammetry, and photo-modeling produced a partial inversion of the architectural surveying process, anticipating the measurement phase.
Published in Chapter:
On Visual Computing for Architectural Heritage
Stefano Brusaporci (L'Aquila University, Italy)
Copyright: © 2015
|Pages: 30
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8379-2.ch003
Abstract
Aim of the chapter is to present a critical discourse on the use of visual computing for the study of historic architecture. From the analysis of the experiences in other scientific fields and of current researches in the architectural one, the paper highlights how visual computing has become an important approach in built heritage study and how it could favor new lines, in particular according to the non-linear spatial narratives of the 3D models. They are useful to analyze and describe the buildings and provide an aggregative core for the heterogeneous bulk of information related to historic buildings (drawings, texts, images, data, metadata, etc.). In this way visual architectural modeling and database modeling correlate together, and the whole system gives rise to complex informative models – manipulable, navigable and interactive –, helpful for the understanding, knowledge, preservation, communication and enhancement of architectural heritage.