Tommaso Empler

• PhD
• Researcher at Sapienza University of Rome

As well known, the practice of digital technologies to enhance the preservation, accessibility, and promotion of cultural heritage is widely recognized as a valid tool not only to reach a wider audience, but also to make the transmission of information clearer and more effective.

This text is the result of the international collaboration activities that the CITERA Sapienza University of Rome interdepartmental research center has carried out in Italy, Indonesia, and China, thanks to the European program IURC International Urban Regional Cooperation from 2019 to 2023. The CITERA center coordinated the fourth edition of the In...

Elba Island, due to its geographical position at the center of the contested Mediterranean region among Italy, France, and Spain, and its environmental resources (minerals and salt), has always been subject to incursions and dominations.For this reason, Elban landscape, understood as the result of socio-economic, cultural, and architectural configu...

Serious Games are among the techniques of Information Communication Technologies, allowing the use of immersive experiences, where the user explores a virtual reconstruction generated on scientific assumptions. Visualization can be completely immersive, using virtual reality headset, or mediated through the use of portable device screens. The const...

This book is the collection of contributions presented by the professors who participated in the first edition of the International Summer School (ISS) GIS-BIM for digital integrated design held online from 31 August to 11 September 2020 organized by the Department of Planning, Design, and Technology of Architecture of the Sapienza University of Ro...

“Linear representation” has been used, in the past of western history and near east, with celebrative functions and a mode of representation where a perception of depth is used linked to the overlapping of elements present in the scene and a consequent visualization in side elevation. A rediscovery of “linear representation” occurs in contemporary...

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...

ICTs are today frequently used in the communication of cultural heritage. Among these Mixed Virtuality offers a visualization system on smart devices where, depending on the needs of dissemination, the reconstructions of objects and spaces can be viewed in Virtual Reality or Augmented Reality mode. As a case study, an application is proposed in the...

Illusory spaces and optical corrections in the urban environment have been used since ancient times, even if they have a particular use since the Renaissance. If in the past the solutions were used permanently, today most of the approaches are temporary and ephemeral and go from the world of street art, to the murals of Blu, to the anamorphic visio...

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...

Il paesaggio fin dall’antichità viene letto, riconosciuto o ricostruito tramite le sue rappresentazioni e la storia dei metodi espressivo/rappresentativi utilizzati. Possono essere individuate tre fasi distinte nell’evoluzione della sintassi della raffigurazione: la prima legata all’abbandono della chiave paradigmatica e simbolica dei disegni eredi...

ICT allows different ways to communicate and enhance the cultural heritage. We present the results of a research work whose objective is the use and dissemination of an archaeological area: the Forum of Nerva in Rome. The Forum was reconstructed on the basis of studies conducted by experts and the Superintendence’ surveys. The first phase of the me...

This chapter describes that representation in architecture has over time been evolving, moving from the concept of idea to physical model to digital model and today to BIM. Historically, from the Renaissance onwards, physical models have been used to document the project, in an effort to make the project more comprehensible to clients and more easi...

ARIM (Assessment Reconstruction Information Modeling) procedure can be seen as the evolution and integration of the BIM systems used so far to monitor and document the transformations of the territory, such as HBIM, GeoBIM, LIM and SeismicBIM, representing at the same time their natural evolution for the management of prevention and reconstruction...

In disseminating and promoting the understanding of the cultural heritage, 3D modeling is increasingly used to provide an idea of what objects actually looked like in the past. The procedures and tools used for this purpose are familiar from their applications in other areas. This paper presents a method for creating a 3D modeling of an archeologic...

“Dynamic projection mapping” is a variation of the best-known “projection mapping”. It considers the perceptual analysis of the urban landscape in which the video projection and the observer’s displacement speed are hypothesized. This latter, in particular, is variable and may depend on factors not directly controllable by the driver (slowdowns due...

Today, anamorphoses are increasingly used in the field of Graphic & Architectural Design. The construction methods of anamorphoses have not changed since those theorized and used by the first treatise writers in 1600. A comparison between some of the existing procedures, based on the use of new technologies, and the theoretical concepts of the past...

This paper outlines the results of current research in reconstruction and popularisation of the Nerva Forum in Rome, dating from imperial Rome and the high medieval period, which aroused interest in terms of technological innovation applied to communication of cultural heritage through navigation in "real time" and use of "augmented reality." Throu...

Aim of the study is the use of new tools, related to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), to promote repertoires of architectural perspective between the '400 and '700. The research is focused on the "Perspective Gallery of Palazzo Spada", which is reconstructed, starting from a 3D laser scan, by means of 3D model navigable in real tim...

Information and communication technology (ICT) is born to new life in Apps using augmented reality. The objective is to improve dissemination of Cultural Heritage on the smartphones and tablets used by visitors and scholars. The disciplinary field involved in the research are: visual communication; representation (management and exploration of 3D m...

Negli ultimi anni il modo di fare informazione e comunicare/divulgare cultura e servizi è notevolmente cambiato. Questa nuova modalità integra le competenze tradizionali della gestione del patrimonio, della museologia, della storia e dell’archeologia con nuovi strumenti connessi alle Tecnologie dell’Informazione e della Comunicazione – TIC (dall’in...

Nella progettazione parametrica il collegamento dinamico fra gli eventi generatori di input, il progetto considerato come elaborazione digitale e la rappresentazione formale, quale elemento di output, può trovare una valida forma di simulazione cinematica mediante le installazioni interattive e multimediali. Le “interaction and multimedia experienc...

The term "Universal Design" is a recent neologism in Italy indicating the performace which objects have to have in order to be used by all potential users in an environment. In this case, the disciplinary sector of Drawing and Survey plays a key role in finding the many solutions required to develop graphics as well as visual and non-visual communi...

Quali sono oggi le impronte dell'uomo nell'architettura contemporanea? Se le prime impronte fossili di ominidi spettano ad un parente di Lucy, un Australopithecus afarensis ritrovato alla fine degli anni Settanta in Tanzania, e le più antiche incisioni/impronte rupestri sono state rinvenute a Nerja in Andalusia, oggi le avanzate tecniche di rappres...

La “computer grafica” oggi supporta il processo progettuale che presenta una continua relazione tra l’elaboratore elettronico e la mente del progettista. Benché le osservazioni possano essere eseguite in luoghi e tempi differenti, esse vengono revisionate senza mai abbandonare la sfera dell’infografia, che consente la visualizzazione di superfici c...

Obiettivo del volume è analizzare le nuove possibilità progettuali/realizzative della grafica e comunicazione ambientale, valutando e sistematizzando l'attuale stato dell'arte, cercando di capire come discipline viste spesso tra loro come molto distanti, quali il graphic design, la progettazione architettonica, la geometria descrittiva, la comunica...