Known as the house of Zé Pereira, the house n° 243, located in the town of Princesa Isabel, became a property listed by the Institute of Historical and Artistic Heritage of the State of Paraíba - IPHAEP in the year 2005, the starting point for the actions to preserve material and immaterial heritage of its history. In the face of a copy of the residential architecture of the republican period of
... [Show full abstract] the early twentieth century, this article aims to describe the methods used in the documentation of architectural building. The first step to safeguard the records of time there was to verify which methods could be associated to the architectural survey in loco and they were the following: measuring per pathway, the triangulation and the trilateration that have low cost application, in addition to easy implementation. In order to scan the information gathered the technology Computer Aided Design - CAD and Building Information Modeling – BIM were used, to store information and 3D reconstructions of the building in separate steps. This article has emerged as an academic extension and was finalized as a final term paper of the Technical course on Constructions in the year 2016. Results showed not only possibilities for accurate documentation of architectural features, but also some limitations depending on the stage of the survey.