Michele Calvano

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

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...

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...

This paper investigates and describes the parametric reconstruction of Palladio’s villas, using his treatise, I Quattro libri dell’architettura , as the primary source. The process starts with an extensive comparison of Palladio’s rooms’ ratios, the compositional rules of the villas’ plans, and the digital creation of parametric architectural eleme...

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...

This paper presents the methodology adopted in an application of shape optimisation and digital fabrication conducted in the field of wooden furniture design. Experience has allowed the authors to define the models that support the creative process, identifying their respective peculiarities and their contribution to the design process as a process...

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...

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...

Gli strumenti per il disegno dell’architettura si sono rapidamente evoluti negli ultimi anni, integrando il disegno manuale con l’uso dell’elaboratore: attraverso strumenti sempre più evoluti le più recenti piattaforme digitali, se sapientemente utilizzate, consentono un profondo e trasversale controllo del processo progettuale e costruttivo, favor...

The relationship between complex form and manufacturing efficiency is increasingly important in light of the remarkable development of digital manufacturing techniques. Algorithmic modelling has assumed a central role as it is able to satisfy both aesthetic and production needs.

Geometry is the first origami property observed, but this is followed by symmetry, balance and proportion. Aesthetic, technical and geometric parameters that make the design of these surfaces particularly interesting for architecture, engineering and design. Among the various ways of dealing with surface folding, this text analyzes the properties o...

Antiquities and works of art preserved in museum collections represent an invaluable evidence of our history. A proper three-dimensional metric survey and digitisation of these assets (which are intrinsically fragile and for this reason need a continue and careful documentation) allow to increase significantly their resilience and they offer a vali...

Algorithmic Information Modelling (AIM) is an acronym that can be used to discuss and reason on the relationship between algorithms used in Visual Programming Language (VPL) platforms and the Information Modelling processes. In the Architecture, Engineering and Construction fields (AEC) the data management related to those processes are more usuall...

The artworks collected in the museums are characterized by formal and invisible values. These latter ones are generated over time and derived mainly from the historical, artistic, social and media history that characterized the exhibited artworks; informal properties are as important as the formal values of the work. The weighted relationship betwe...

The paper presents the final outcome of a project carried out through the collaboration between Politecnico di Torino and Museo Egizio of Turin. The main aim of the project has been to make available a small series of artefacts that are part of the museum collection through their virtual reproduction. The research investigates procedures that are...

According to Carlo Doglioni,1 President of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology since 2016, the earthquakes that have occurred in Italy in the last few decades have highlighted the country’s elevated vulnerability and exposition. Seismic events require comprehensive assessment involving multiple fields of knowledge. To regenerate th...

This paper aims to investigate how the open-design approach can help in the regeneration processes of historical urban heritage through participatory design path. The opportunity to experiment with the methods and techniques of open-design was offered by a research project called Visionaria conducted in the city of Senigallia (Marche, Italy). Visio...

The research aims to describe a positive match between contemporary digital representation techniques and the discipline of archaeology. Specifically, it refers to the experience resulting from the collaboration between the discipline of drawing and the group of archaeologists based at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. The subject represented...

Book of Abstracts - Second International Congress on Archaeological Sciences in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East

Con disegno digitale esplicito si intende quella modalità di rappresentazione in cui l’attenzione del disegnatore è rivolta anche alle procedure che generano l’immagine. L’equilibrio tra procedura e prodotto finale mette in evidenza nuove modalità creative che si manifestano tanto nel prodotto visuale, quanto nelle procedure che lo generano. Nel li...

The 3D reconstruction and the BIM analysis of the prehistoric house architecture of the Neolithic settlement of la Draga (Girona, Spain) will be illustrated in this paper. La Draga is an Early Neolithic pile-dwelling settlement (ca. 5.300–4.800 cal BC) located in the NE of the Iberian Peninsula, on the eastern shore of Lake Banyoles (Girona, Spain)...

The research proposes a method of survey and representation of architectural models starting from spherical images acquired with medium level 360 cameras. The procedure is based on the principles of projective geometry that regulate spherical images in which there is a main point O centre of the sphere, the spherical surface on which the image is g...

The relationship between cultural heritage, digital technologies and visual models involves an increasingly wide area of research, oriented towards the renewal of archives and museums for the preservation and promotion of culture. The most recent research activities are the result of the progressive strengthening of digital technologies and the nee...

The research project, still in progress, developed a proposal procedure to visualize a 3D models of an hidden collection of Museo Egizio in Turin. The prototype procedure exposed is focused on the visualization of 3D objects shapes and additional information by networking the enriched 3D model. This preliminary output is part of a broader purpose t...

The relationship between cultural heritage, digital technologies and visual models involves an increasingly wide area of research, oriented towards the renewal of archives and museums for the preservation and promotion of culture. Recent research activities are the result of the progressive strengthening of digital technologies and the needs of a n...

This chapter is motivated by the possibility of an intelligent use of digital technologies by experimenting with communicational forms and languages to enhance cultural heritage. The experimentation was conducted about a particular case study —the urban space of Amatrice and its community, overturned by the earthquake on 24 August 2016 and the succ...

The earthquakes that have hit Italy in recent decades have highlighted the high vulnerability of the Italian peninsula. It is therefore necessary to identify a strategy that integrates the need to restore and preserve cultural roots, post-earthquake reconstruction or anti-seismic improvement/adjustment. The ARIM (Assestment Reconstruction Informati...

Between the two wars, the theme of sacred architecture in Italy, as well as in Poland, is for various reasons of great complexity. In this context, the intention of dealing with it through the analysis of only two projects developed for two important competitions: the Temple of Divine Providence in Warsaw in 1931 and the Church in Galatians of the...

This paper presents some steps in experimentation aimed at describing urban spaces made following the series of earthquakes that affected a vast area of central Italy starting on 24 August 2016. More specifically, these spaces pertain to historical centres of limited size and case studies that can be called “problematic” (due to complex morphologic...

The design project in its evolution from idea to object requires investigations that make use of comparison among all models. The models, to be useful to the design process, must be easily editable in order to make quick assessments of the product that is being designed. The algorithm design, so far implicitly present in the mind of the designer, b...

Enhancement of the cultural heritage is not simply a matter of preserving material objects but comes full circle only when the heritage can be enjoyed and used by the community. This is the rationale behind this paper: the application to exploring projects for the Casa del Fascio (Fascist Party Office) and the building complex of Foro Mussolini in...

The objective of this research is to explore the ability of folded origami tessellations to adapt to free-form surface configurations and to evaluate the structural behavior of these folded tessellations for architectural and engineering applications. A mathematical exploration of the kinematics of folding provides the basis for understanding the r...

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...

A few months by the earthquake, the research proposes a method of "instant modeling" for the reconstruction of the urban digital model of Amatrice. The method underlying the described procedures allows to extract data from the web that flow into the model and conform it. In the case of Amatrice, model becomes an edita-ble storage, able to integrate...

Following the seismic events that hit the centre of Italy since August 2016, a procedure has been devised to acquire models in conditions where the object cannot be visited or no longer exists. These are a series of operations that go beyond the need to go to places, in some cases inaccessible or substantially modified by even catastrophic environm...

The challenge of contemporary museums is to make content accessible to a wider audience; in this way information related to the good becomes more communicative and usable in order to enhance its uniqueness. Accessibility goes through an innovative communication of content: the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) that are increasingly p...

Starting with a particular annual theme that was adopted in a specific educational course, the paper reflects on the fundamental reciprocal relationship between teaching and research in surveying in the framework of relationships between tradition and innovation, sources and current events, the past and the future. These reflections are useful for...

Among the several information available on web the spherical panoramas by Google can be an important reference for the 3D models elaboration of urban contexts and historic buildings, difficult to access or even destroyed as a result of wars or natural disasters. Starting from the spherical photogrammetry, thoroughly tested and used by some scholars...

The adopted methodology was defined by a multidisciplinary team with a strong believe in the efficiency of learning-by-doing design studios which resulted in an experimental digital workflow to create responsive surfaces based on the geometry of Rigid Origami. The workflow comprehends all the matters related to the creation of such surfaces, from t...

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...

Enhancement of the cultural heritage is not simply a matter of preserving material objects but comes full circle only when the heritage can be enjoyed and used by the community. This is the rationale behind this paper: the application to exploring projects for the Casa del Fascio (Fascist Party Office) and the building complex of Foro Mussolini in...

Various studies have investigated the enduring connections between writing and power. As well, the relationships between architecture and power—between city and power—that testify to the functionality of an architectural work or urban space in transmitting a message have also been addressed. To understand these phenomena fully, it is first necessar...

In this chapter, geometrical algorithms are illustrated to resolve problems present in the creative process when designing a product. If it is explicit and automated, the algorithm can serve as a useful tool during the product design process. The objective is to simplify the step between the digital and physical models and vice versa, which is typi...

The workshop was part of a research project focusing not only on the representation of the architectural and urban transformations of the city of Latina, but also on representation as a planning tool. To date this project has been carried forward by the Casa dell'Aichitettura di Latina; the latter has developed a typological plan which is, however,...

Today, the concept of urban regeneration as a guide in the early stages of urban planning is increasingly affirming. for this reason, the study of urban transformation through the critical reading of the drawings of the project, it is a very topical issue. Modern techniques of integrated digital modeling allows to define new and interesting researc...

Enhancement of cultural heritage is not simply a matter of preserving material objects but comes full circle only when the heritage can be enjoyed and used by the community. This is the rationale behind this presentation: an urban Virtual Tour to explore the 1937 design of the Fascist Headquarters in Littoria, now part of Latina, by the architect O...

Our experiments are intended to refocus attention on the study of geometry, in particular on ruled surfaces, their possible discrete forms and/or development in the plane. The study of geometry is oriented to the concept, formal and expressive control, and built form. We begin with the critical analysis of the geometric shape, go through the proble...

Il Reverse Modeling (RM) è il processo con il quale è possibile dedurre la rappresentazione della forma dall’acquisizione digitale del modello fisico. Le finalità del processo possono essere diverse, nel design può essere utilizzato sia per le operazioni di restyling che per operazioni più prettamente progettuali. Attualmente le metodologie e le te...

L’antica arte del piegare la carta, l’Origami, sta vivendo un rinnovato interesse che coinvolge molti aspetti della ricerca. Con il termine origami, si intende lo studio del modo di piegare il foglio di carta per imporgli una specifica forma. La superficie tassellata per mezzo di specifiche pieghe, si propone come un nuovo soggetto di studio: la su...