Paolo Borin

• Master of Engineering
• Associate Professor at University of Brescia

Material stock analyses of buildings and infrastructure are proliferating in Industrial Ecology literature. One popular approach to calculating material stocks is multiplying the number of buildings present in the study area by their average material content, a parameter often termed material intensity. However, existing studies have primarily focu...

This contribution deals with a study carried out on the Anatomical Theater of Padua (built in 1595). Historical documentation research and digital survey advantage the understanding not only the design idea but also its geometric rules of the configuration, through a schematic elaboration based on the digital model.

The paper proposes a computational method to study and test the relationship between shape and performance for the built environment, sustaining the use of smart geometry to support design operation. A comprehensive study of the geometry and working principles of a hyperboloidical cooling tower is presented. A case study in Marghera (Venice), built...

To study Geometry and Representation from a theoretical point of view, it is certainly necessary to refer critically to the historical-anthropological climate of their genesis. This training approach allows to see and understand their evolution/impact for new approaches to the genesis of architectural/engineering artefacts, both from a configurativ...

The relationship between Cultural Heritage and the current digital technologies allows us to critically analyze the Modernist period (1920–1960) and its preeminent figures, who reshaped their environment utilizing practical testing, scientific knowledge, and new technologies. Pier Luigi Nervi is one of the main characters. He considered that proper...

Clay brick masonry is a vernacular construction technique; it continues to be used extensively in Italy and elsewhere. Despite the essential role clay bricks play in construction , they are often overlooked in the environmental literature, and sound production data are hard to obtain. This study integrates material flow analysis (MFA) and building...

Today, geometrical studies are re-emerging and they are able of connecting and combining conceptual/philosophical/theoretical topics with the shape and configuration of the space, considered as the basic core of still existing or in fieri architecture. Thus, a graphic-documentary apparatus, organized and able to communicate the topics of curves and...

This paper discusses the use of scripting procedures and structural computation applied to the stonecutting of vaults. Starting from the conceptualization of trumpet squinches in various treatises, it offers an understanding of the parametric framework used. The operation is then replicated on Wallis’s conical edge surface as described by Guarino G...

The presented work responds to the need to represent the Harris matrix in a three-dimensional BIM model, providing a clear reading of each of its elements through a visualization methodology reliable to the symbols and rules defined in the literature. The potential applications of these graphic strategies have been experimented in the case study of...

The Infrastructure Building Information Modeling (I-BIM) is a digital information management system utilized in the transport infrastructures construction, becoming increasingly important. BIM modeling aims at bringing improvements to all design stages. The use of BIM modeling will also provide cost reduction and control, increase awareness to data...

The large diffusion of BIM modeling within the study of historic buildings makes often necessary for researchers to integrate automatically models and graphic documentation (analogical and digital photographs, paintings, lithographs, etc.) derived from historical analysis. The study here presented study how to intersect three-dimensional digital mo...

This paper aims to demonstrate how to translate features and properties of existing wooden structures about function, performance and aesthetic into BIM objects. This purpose has a double effect: from an operative perspective, the modelling of existing wooden structures is necessary for any structural restoration project, while culturally for the p...

This research employed a spatially explicit analysis to calculate the total material stock and demolition waste flows for Padua, a medium sized Italian city, for the period 1902-2007. The analysis of maps and aerial photographs allowed for the calculation of building lifespan, which grew until the second half of the twentieth century, but had a sha...

This essay deals with the representation of cities focusing on their historical transformations and relying on digital scanning, 3D modeling and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies. The instances shown in it come from a project titled Visualizing Venice, an international multi-institutional cooperation now shifting to Visualizing Cities. The main c...

L’obiettivo di dominare gli aspetti economici, sociali ed ambientali connessi con la produzione di un’opera architettonica impone un approccio sistemico in base al quale è necessario produrre modelli di studio finalizzati all’analisi coordinata di una pluralità di problematiche prestazionali mutuamente interdipendenti. La tecnologia del BIM, e in d...

The process of "critical analysis of measurement" and "taking the measure", before the current modern surveying techniques, followed a process that presupposed design choices by the surveyor/researcher. It depended on the object of study and on the purpose of the survey. These choices lead to both elaborated two-dimensional drawings and digital mod...

The article investigates the architectural drawing central role within heritage buildings knowledge. The fact is validated in both traditional tridimensional modeling procedures and advanced features. A simultaneous and collaborative analysis researches about the Eremitani’s church in Padua, demonstrate that representation is, in the early steps, a...

This paper illustrates the process of parametric modelling for creating an architectural heritage BIM starting from three-dimensional survey. Parametric modelling is underlined as a flexible instrument capable to develop both ideal surfaces useful for geometrical/configurative analysis, and closer-to-reality surfaces for implementation of architect...

The problem of defining the best design solution relates on the one hand to the availability of different design options, on the other hand to the possibility to develop multi criteria analysis at any stage. To face this kind of analysis means to generate, quickly and without loss of information, refined models that can be implemented in different...