Elena Gigliarelli

Italian National Research Council | CNR · Institute for Technologies Applied to Cultural Heritage ITABC

The seismic assessment of existing unreinforced masonry structures is particularly complex. Defining the correct modelling assumptions is essential when using global models to ensure valid results. Achieving this often requires the collaboration of a group of stakeholders with diverse backgrounds who can thoroughly study the structure under conside...

The application of HBIM for the information management of historical buildings is often hindered by the presence of uncertainty due to limited geometric information and documentation at the time of modelling; controlling and organising this level of uncertainty, in view of future developments, becomes paramount. This paper presents an HBIM workflow...

The impact of digital technologies on heritage sciences has increased the speed and automation of processes and practices aimed at the survey, representation, modelling, and information management of the built, architectural, and archaeological heritage. These digital resources are progressively increasing, but only some of them are stored and diss...

Whole-building dynamic simulation has been increasingly adopted as a tool to non-invasively investigate possible strategies to improve energy efficiency, thermal comfort, and conservation of historical buildings. Several critical assumptions are needed to cope with insufficient input data and limitations in simulation models, therefore the modellin...

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) supports the analysis of past (and present) microclimate in historical villages. A workflow based on Visual Programming Language (VPL) was developed to connect 3D geometrical modelling and CFD applications to accurately reproduce the behaviour of complex sites.

Gli effetti del cambiamento climatico stanno mettendo a rischio anche il patrimonio storico. Pertanto, è urgente intervenire per limitare gli impatti negativi sulla conservazione dei centri storici, migliorando al contempo la qualità di vita dei cittadini e la sostenibilità ambientale. Il paper presenta il processo multidisciplinare messo a punto c...

Building Energy Modelling (BEM) applied to historical buildings is rising as a non-invasive and useful means to improve their energy and environmental performance by supporting informed choice of appropriate solutions for sensitive renovation. Being climate data one of the main inputs of simulations and considering the life span of historical build...

Assessing the structural integrity of unreinforced masonry structures is a complex and time-consuming process that necessitates the knowledge of various experts and meticulous cross-referencing of diverse data to achieve a comprehensive understanding of the building. In recent years, the Architecture and Construction Industry has witnessed a digita...

The paper describes the implementation of an open-source platform integrating HBIM-IoT monitoring sensors, applied to the Royal Site of Carditello, a Bourbon 18th-century Palace near the city of Capua (Italy). Based on open standards and processes, the platform is accessible on different devices through the Internet and acts as a digital representa...

Digital processes for modelling the historic built environment have changed research methods, expanding the domain of knowledge that surrounds cultural heritage, involving different expertise. Research activities make use of methods and tools, thinking of methods as permanent concepts in a process in which hardware and software tools, on the contra...

Built heritage conservation and environmental design are undergoing a cross-fertilization process that is strongly interdisciplinary, holistic and capable of leveraging the best of both hard sciences and humanities. The recent actions of the Climate Heritage Network, with the development of the European Cultural Heritage Green Paper in response to...

This paper describes a project integrating HBIM methodology with a portion of the diagnostic data collected by the MOLAB campaign, a mobile laboratory of the European Research Infrastructure on Heritage Science E-RIHS, to study and preserve the monastery church of St. John in Müstair.

Cultural heritage management requires a constant integration of specialised knowledge, essential to ensure its protection. The present work on the Florio former tuna factory in Favignana illustrates an HBIM procedure that aims to integrate 3D data acquisition and modelling to accommodate a wide and complex range of information into a single central...

Built heritage energy and environmental improvement is increasingly being recognised as a key driver in the fight against climate change. This effort necessitates a thorough understanding of the building to guide the selection of technologies and design solutions. To have a picture of the buildings' characteristics and behaviour that is as complete...

The architectural engineering and construction sector accounts for about 30-40% of global energy consumption. The European goal of reducing this consumption and the linked greenhouse gas emissions calls for an increased capacity to implement building renovations. Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Building Performance Simulations (BPS) are am...

In a Building Information Model, “the Level of Information Needs should be determined by the minimum amount of information required: anything above this minimum is considered AWSTE”1. This is stated by EN ISO 19650-1, which also defines the concept of ‘federation of models’, able to express the information complexity that characterises built herita...

In the last decade, digital processes have strongly influenced the ways in which information concerning the built heritage is represented and managed and the consequent preservation and enhancement activities conducted by specialists in the field. While this has led to a significant increase in the amount of data produced, equally evident are the d...

The study outlines the state-of-art on interoperability between Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Building Performance Simulation (BPS). First, the paper organises the result of a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) on the topic into three main strategies to achieve interoperability: the scripting to automate the information transfer between B...

The application of the Building Information Modelling (BIM) process to Built Heritage (HBIM) is a growing practice in processes and activities aimed at the investigation, documentation, and conservation of architectural heritage. However, it still raises some questions, such as the compatibility between the formalisation of information in the BIM m...

Conservation and valorisation practices of built heritage can greatly benefit from Heritage Building Information Modelling (HBIM) workflows. The use of HBIM as an information management process is not fully established yet, also due to the focus on industrialised architecture typical of the most common BIM tools. Capitalising on the benefits of the...

BEEP project proposes a Heritage BIM and simulation-based methodology to support the analysis and design of energy and environmental improvement intervention on public-owned historic buildings. Following the methodology, a guideline was developed from the analysis phase to the design of interventions, up to the Energy Performance Contracting phase...

The heterogeneity and historical complexity of interventions on built heritage are testified by the constant development of the conservation discipline. The purpose of the research is the devel-opment of a digital workflow of parametric modelling for the analysis and conservation of his-torical buildings, by applying visual programming language (VP...

With the impending climate crisis and the strong position of EU towards the ecological transition within a planetary effort, the theme of intervention on his-torical buildings acquires new impetus. The ENICBCMed BEEP project, BIM for Energy Efficiency in the Public Sector, has developed a workflow for the energy and environmental improvement of his...

This document provides a technical guideline for an energy audit of a historical building to support its energy and environmental improvement (as shown in the Energy Audit Process Flow schema based on the EN 16247-2:2014, see par 1.4), from the analyses to the design stage up to the Energy Performance Contracting implementation. Each section of the...

The research aims to integrate the Index of Masonry Quality into a Heritage BIM workflow, with the support of Visual Programming Language (VPL). The study is part of a broader set of investigation methods for the digitisation of built heritage for facilitating the management and accessibility of information. By reducing analyses’ costs and time, it...

The purpose of this document is to introduce the reader to the advantages of applying Building Performance Simulation (BPS) methodologies and tools on built heritage, in Section 2. BPS allows the study and optimisation of energy performance in an interrelated way, through the creation of a behavioural model of a given historical urban fabric, build...

Research increasingly makes use of multidisciplinary contributions to achieve valid and shared results. The synergy between different areas of knowledge is greater the clearer the language of sharing. Cognitive maps, an instrument belonging in general to the sphere of cognitive sciences, propose a language for sharing knowledge using graphic codes...

The purpose of this document is to explore and address the current state of BIM to BPS Interoperability development, its reasoning, challenges and current workflow approaches in AEC daily practice. It seeks to provide critical insights of the current obstacles the AEC industry is facing regarding this activity, in order to allow the Project partner...

The article deals with the fundamental issue of the interoperability between BIM and BPS in the complex context of historic buildings conservation. As the current tools for the transition from BIM to BPS follow a black-box approach in which it is difficult for the experts to intervene efficiently without doing several parallel operations, this pape...

Many European inland territories often hold important cultural and landscape resources that have not been affected by the process of globalization and that preserve intact those features of authenticity and uniqueness. This kind of resources appears particularly suitable for developing alternative forms of tourism, to strengthen the knowledge of lo...

Thecontributiondiscussestheenergyuseandcharacteristicsoftheresidentialbuilding stock in Jiangsu Province (China), with a focus on the potential of large-scale energy retrofit to mitigate environmental impact and running costs of its most inefficient vintages, while improving occupant comfort and reducing the need for demolition and reconstruction in...

The paper deals with the topic of the regeneration of minor building stock in the context of small Italian historical centres, through the use of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) methodologies and tools for the management and development of sustainable intervention strategies. The problems of accessibility and urban decay were at the...

The paper addresses the theme of multidisciplinary decision support for energy efficiency in historic buildings through two research experiences: SECHURBA – Intelligent Energy Europe, and METRICS – an Italian PON-Research and Competitiveness project, where a multidisciplinary stakeholders group used the approach. A Multi-Criteria Analysis, the Anal...

The article deals with the use of digital technologies to support the management and regeneration of minor buildings, in particular that of small Italian historical centers, rep-resented by the case study of the medieval village of Artena, located south of Rome. The design of the interventions on the village was accompanied by the parallel design o...

Energy efficiency, sustainability of interventions and efficient management of the conservation process are three increasingly important features of the restoration and regeneration of urban historic fabrics. Several studies identify in the Heritage-BIM the most suitable instrument for the integration and management of knowledge produced during the...

The article describes an integrated, holistic and multi-scalar methodology to address the theme of energy efficiency of historic fabrics, supported by the use of technologies in the field of Heritage BIM, numerical simulations and decision support systems, carried out in the old town of Frigento in Italy. Both at the urban and the building scale, a...

Il concetto di resilienza venne inizialmente definito come «capacità di un sistema di ritornare a uno stato di equilibrio dopo un disturbo temporaneo» (Stanley Holling, 1973). Ma quali sono i limiti di durata sottesi all'aggettivo 'temporaneo' quando i tempi sono quelli millenari degli insediamenti urbani antichi? Nell'ambito della ricerca sulla re...

The use of numerical simulation applied to heritage buildings triggers a tremendous increase in complexity and at the present time few studies focus on this issue and the problems of their calibrations. The difficulties are affected by many factors: the complex geometry involved, the non-standardization of building elements, the inertial behaviour...

Oggi i musei sono sempre più luoghi pubblici popolari e svolgono un ruolo significativo nella società: oltre a rappresentare la cultura, la storia e il gusto di una comunità, giocano un ruolo attivo nelle sfide di un futuro prossimo venturo. In un’epoca di instabilità e di incertezze il museo ci appare come una macchina del tempo capace di farci vi...

The study focuses on a multi-scale and multi-disciplinary approach, for energy efficient intervention on the historic centre and buildings of a town in southern Italy. The methodology involves the use of numerical simulations and building information modeling for the management optimisation of the analysis and design phases. The energy analyses are...

Starting with an observation of a vast number of players, and a marked lack in the cultural heritage sector of a specific implementation plan to identify operational protocols and guidelines based on shared models, this paper aims to present the development of an open source software platform with the feature that it contains detailed information a...

The aim of this paper is to present a system of design strategies, useful to technical institutes and universities, that endeavor to create more environmentally and socially sustainable laboratory spaces. The Green Lab model is designed to promote sustainable education throughout the complete life cycle of smart buildings. This requires a critical...

The intelligent rehabilitation of historic social housing can contribute to economic development, environmental stewardship, quality of life and social equality, so it is important to invest money and efforts in the refurbishment and retrofitting of historical buildings to make them more energy efficient, and not limit energy efficient methods to n...

The Bedestan (Saint Nicholas Church) is located in Cyprus, in the Turkish part of the historic heart of the city of Nicosia only a step away from the ancient Latin Cathedral of Santa Sofia, today the Selimiye mosque. It gets its name from its function of cloth and precious object market during the Ottoman period (1570-1878) following the transforma...

La priorità della conservazione e della tutela dei centri storici e degli edifici di interesse storico-culturale europei nei processi di pianificazione urbana e il complesso quadro normativo e programmatico hanno spesso frenato il loro sviluppo tecnologico ambientale e sostenibile. Un forte orientamento in questo senso è dato dall’esclusione degli...

The problems that the earthquake "Emilia 2012" left on the field do not end with the assumption of responsibility, first of all technical, towards the historic centres severely affected. The paradigm of smart city, seen here transversely, is a possible opportunity in the context of development strategies for reconstruction

The article presents the results of a methodological study aimed at the development of an integrated, intelligent and expeditious system for the understanding, evaluation, and upgrading of energy efficiency in historical urban social housing neighbourhoods. The possibilities offered by GIS and ICT systems were explored for the analysis and planning...

Climate change have impacts on many sectors: land use, housing, transportation, public health, water supply and sanitation, solid waste, food security, and energy. This article presents the results of the project SECHURBA, financed by European funds, whose purpose was to examine the potential of environmental protection and sustainability in histor...

The study and conservation of ancient buildings today lies at the focus of many disciplines. The problems usually pertaining to the architectural heritage range from questions of a historiographic nature and more specifically technical issues related to the maintenance of buildings from the past. In both cases, the contribution of the natural scien...

Is it possible to integrate energy saving technologies and renewable energy in today’s society with respect to the cultural and architectural aspects of historical buildings using tools to aid decision-making on how to integrate new functions, materials and techniques? The aim of this paper is to analyze the link between utilization and conservatio...

Le città storiche costituiscono la facies più rappresentativa del nostro patrimonio culturale in quanto fondono insieme gli edifici, con tutto il loro bagaglio di tecnologie e materiali, con gli spazi urbani e ricuciono insieme l’ambiente costruito con il paesaggio circostante. I centri storici sono il risultato di lunghe stratificazioni e di un co...

The potential of energy saving measures in historic buildings is of great interest, due to the increased building stock in European level, the particularities in their architectural form, typology and age of construction, the energy efficient initial design and their specific use and operation. Museums, theatres, churches, as well as offices, unive...

Is it possible to integrate energy savings technologies and renewable energy in today’s society with respect to the cultural and architectural aspects of the historical buildings using tools to aid the decision how to integrate new functions, materials and techniques? The aim of this paper is to analyse the link between utilisation and conservatio...

The scientific and technological research for the conservation and reuse of historic monuments have today to promote and test appropriate strategies for the environmentalenergy sustainability of this cultural heritage. The research should tackle the functional and equipment adaptation of the architectonic heritage with technological interventions a...

Le linee guida dell’Europa per il futuro del continente pongono come obiettivo chiave la società della conoscenza, da realizzare attraverso lo sviluppo della imprenditorialità, dell’innovazione e della ricerca.Tre tematiche fortemente interconnesse tra di loro che il mondo dei beni culturali, settore strategico per la società europea, non sempre ri...

Il tema della cultura rappresenta una competenza e una priorità relativamente recente per l’Unione Europea la quale ha considerato per lungo tempo questo settore marginale rispetto ai grandi temi, indicati dal Trattato di Roma, dell’industria, dell’agricoltura, dell’energia e dei trasporti. Prima del 1992 le iniziative culturali erano rappresentate...

Questo volume presenta i risultati di una ricerca del CNR che, partendo dagli indirizzi più attuali degli studi urbani e della conservazione architettonica, è stata condotta su una città della Sicilia occidentale e sul suo territorio. In questo senso il progetto scientifico ha inteso saldare gli apparati investigativi delle discipline storico-resta...

Lo studio del Palazzo Forcella De Seta a Palermo è stato realizzato all’interno del Progetto INFORMCatalog che si è svolto a Palermo dal 2002 al 2004. La Regione Siciliana, con il sostegno del Fondo Sociale Europeo, ha finanziato questa iniziativa diretta “alla formazione e all’inserimento nel mercato del lavoro di operatori specializzati nel rilie...

Ogni operazione di restauro architettonico oscilla tra questioni di metodo e questioni di prassi conservativa e chiarire gli interrogativi teorico-critici sul come realizzare un intervento non risolve automaticamente i quesiti sulle scelte tecniche più appropriate. Gli ultimi sviluppi nel campo delle tecnologie applicate ai Beni culturali offrono u...

Il volume fa parte della collana di monografie sviluppate con il progetto comunitario Aramis “Arab Mills and Irrigation Systems in the Mediterranean Basin”. Gli autori presentano i principali risultati ottenuti con uno studio dedicato alla conoscenza e alla valorizzazione di quel vasto patrimonio preindustriale costruito da sistemi di irrigazione a...

The history and culture of Islamic cities have for some years been the object of in-depth studies which have done much to clarify evolutionary events and the form of urban settlements of Muslim origin, both in the East and the West. The interest shown in the dwelling texture of the cities and the study of the large religious and lay buildings in th...

Within the complex analytical and cognitive process of building analysis, which is defined as a systematic approach to the documentation and knowledge of architectonic heritage, one fundamental aspect consists of the possibility of interconnecting and managing complex contributions gathered in the course of studying the monument. One aim to pursue...