Andrea Adami

• Università Iuav di Venezia

In 2020, Apple started to include a LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) sensor on its high-end mobile devices. Since the introduction of the sensor, a large number of apps exploiting it have populated the iOS App Store. Therefore, Apple devices with a LiDAR sensor have seen increasing applications for efficient, low-cost spatial analysis and 3D mod...

The research implements a procedure based on (H)BIM (Historic Building Information Modelling) operational practices for the structural assessment of heritage slender structures. The application of HBIM creates a digital model integrated with all the information for the structural modelling and for the intervention design. The activity starts from d...

Porches, as defined by the Art & Architecture Thesaurus, serve as vital transitional spaces linking indoor and outdoor environments. Despite their historical and contemporary significance, porches lack explicit representation in prevalent standards like CityGML and IndoorGML, posing challenges for comprehensive spatial modeling and its application....

Ruins, marked by decay and abandonment, present challenges for digital documentation due to their varied conditions and remote locations. Surveying inaccessible ruins demands innovative approaches for safety and accuracy. Drones with high-resolution cameras enable the detailed aerial inspection and imaging of these inaccessible areas. This study in...

To manage the historic built heritage, it is of fundamental importance to fully understand the urban area under study, so that all its characteristics and critical issues related to historical conformation, stratification, and transformations can be better understood and described. Geometric surveying allows a deeper investigation of these characte...

This article runs an in-depth examination of documentation, representation and conservation praxis of Architectural Heritage in the field of applied academic research. The focus is put on technological advances in digital documentation applied to Cultural Heritage. The architectural survey is one of the first actions taken in the knowledge process...

The scientific community is confirming the advantages of using BIM in the processes of conservation, management, and intervention over architectural historical heritage. However, many difficulties remain in the transcription process of elements of the built environment, especially when the objective of the model is to support decision-making proces...

The San Marco 3D project had the ambitious goal of building a digital replica of the famous venetian basilica. Architectural surveying and modelling are very widespread procedures, but the complexity of the basilica, its decorative apparatus, in mosaic and marble, and its liveliness made this project a real challenge. Thanks to geomatics, from the...

The “Palazzo Ducale” museum complex in Mantua has been the object of intermittent interventions, which have not represented, over the last 30 years, a consistent strategy in terms of conservation. In the light of new financial and technological possibilities, a renewed management synergy has been activated: better operative decisions and the applic...

Planned conservation approach requires a sustained, long-term action to better manage the cultural heritage assets during their life cycle. Together with programmed conservation and local interventions, there is a large amount of information related to the building; it emerges the need for an appropriate tool in which to store all data. Historic Bu...

The synergy between Mantua Diocese, Direzione Regionale per i beni culturali e paesaggistici della Lombardia and Politecnico di Milano enabled the elaboration of a strategic conservation plan for some Mantova buildings of great significance to the city and to the owners: the planning of monitoring activities necessary to the conservation has experi...

In recent years, special digital cameras called “action camera” or “action cam”, have become popular due to their low price, smallness, lightness, strength and capacity to make videos and photos even in extreme environment surrounding condition. Indeed, these particular cameras have been designed mainly to capture sport actions and work even in cas...

p>This article aims to critically examine the entire methodology of very large scale (1:1) surveying and documentation of mosaic surfaces. The term ‘survey’ should be read in its broadest and most complete and sense, including the phases of measurement and data processing as well as management and use of these data for the purposes of preservation...

The Basilica of San Marco in Venice is a well-known masterpiece of World Heritage. It is a real multi-faceted architecture. The management of the church and its construction site is very complicated, and requires an efficient system to collect and manage different kinds of data. The BIM approach appeared to be the most suitable to collect multi-sou...

After the earthquake of 2012, the ecclesiastical heritage of Mantua was so damaged to render unusable many buildings. Especially churches show a higher vulnerability in relation to their architectural features. From a recognition after the seismic event, more that 40% of the churches of Mantua were damaged with different intensity. After the first...

The Basilica of San Marco is a singular case in the field of Cultural heritage, as it constitutes a construction site always active for the maintenance and preservation of the basilica itself. The continuous intervention of conservation, due to the particular environmental conditions of Venice and the opening to the public, together with the comple...

Modeling of Cultural Heritage in a BIM environment, and in general of existing buildings, requires special attention because there are two diametrically opposed possibilities. On the one hand the attempt is to realize a very complex and accurate model, in order to provide the most comprehensive representation of the architecture as possible. The op...

Advanced 3D survey technologies, such as Digital Photogrammetry (imaged based) and Laser Scanner, are nowadays widely used in Cultural Heritage and Archaeological fields. The present paper describes the investigations realized by the Laboratory Hesutech of the Polytechnic of Milan in cooperation with the Superintendence Archaeology Campania in orde...

In recent years many earthquakes hit Italy and its Cultural Heritage. The topic of survey of buildings damaged by seismic events and their interpretation has become very relevant and involved many research groups and Italian Civil Protection. The damage survey has different roles: in the first stage, immediately after the emergency, the documentat...

In recent years many earthquakes hit Italy and its Cultural Heritage. The topic of survey of buildings damaged by seismic events and their interpretation has become very relevant and involved many research groups and Italian Civil Protection. The damage survey has different roles: in the first stage, immediately after the emergency, the documenta...

Geomatics technics and methods are now able to provide a great contribution to the Cultural Heritage (CH) processes, being adaptable to different purposes: management, diagnosis, restoration, protection, study and research, communication, formation and fruition of the Cultural Heritage. This experimentation was done with an eye to encouraging and p...

In recent years, digital photogrammetry has enjoyed a renewed approval in the ield of Cultural Heritage. This is due both to the relative cheapness of the instruments (a high resolution camera, possibly a relex with good lenses) and to new algorithms and software that simpliied the use, perhaps at the expense of the necessary knowledge of its princ...

The aim of the Virtual Museum of the Tiber Valley project is the creation of an integrated digital platform for the knowledge, valorisation and communication of the cultural landscape, the archaeological and naturalistic sites along the Tiber Valley, in the Sabina area, North of Rome. Virtual reality applications, multimedia contents, together with...

3d modelling of Architectural Heritage does not follow a very well-defined way, but it goes through different algorithms and digital form according to the shape complexity of the object, to the main goal of the representation and to the starting data. Even if the process starts from the same data, such as a pointcloud acquired by laser scanner, the...

L'esperienza condotta su San Michele in Isola si inserisce nel fi lone di ricerca della geomatica applicata allo studio dei Beni Culturali. Il rilievo di una facciata, operazione tradizionale in architettura, si caratterizza infatti come campo di applicazione per nuove tecnologie e strumenti e come possibilità di verifi ca delle metodologie già con...

Lafrery's perspective map of Milan (1573): genesis and geometric content Summary This paper considers an analysis of the perspective view of Milan engraved by Anto-nio Lafrèry and published in 1573. The study focuses on the perspective view in or-der to define its cartographic content and to establish if it was constructed by a rigor-ous methodolog...

In last years laser scanning have increased its application in different fields: from geological to architectural and archaeological survey, from real time monitoring to rapid prototyping. Respect to architecture and archaeology, but more generally to Cultural Heritage, laser scanning technology is becoming more popular as can be proved in the late...

Historical maps often suffer significant deformations of their supporting material of any type. These deformations make it difficult to make an accurate reading of maps in its geometric and semantic context. As invaluable materials of cultural heritage, historical maps, in very many cases (rolled parchments, maps in old books and atlases etc.) cann...

Summary This paper will demonstrate how new technologies in cartographic environment integrate ac- quisition, management and representation techniques for georefencing data processing. More- over, there is an ever-growing demand for a more "representative" and "world widespread" digital cartography. More representative means the capabilities in des...

Acquisition, management and processing survey data in a digital form opens up exciting new opportunities to represent the territory, its architecture, and its objects efficiently by building 3D models. In the case of archaeological sites, data and information of structures on the territory and related objects, represented in territorial scale, must...

During the study of the medieval village of Campo it has been realized a three-dimensional model which aimed on the one hand to the representation of the complex morphology of the territory in which the center it is developed and to the consequent altimetric complexity of the built part, on the other hand, to the necessity to manage in a unitary wa...

This paper will demonstrate how new technologies in cartographic environment integrate acquisition, management and representation techniques for georefencing data processing. Among the different formats of numerical cartography, three-dimensional maps are certainly the more suitable. These represent a cartographic typology corresponding to differen...

This paper will demonstrate how new technologies in cartographic environment integrate acquisition, management and