SECOND YEAR
2nd Semester

Module A – Business for Digital Cultural Heritage (6 CFU) Prerequisites Training objectives Program and contents

 Teaching methods

 Reference books

 Learning Evaluation Methods

  Module B – Digital Heritage Management (6 CFU)

 Prerequisites Students enrolled in this course must have a basic knowledge of the discipline of Restoration and Conservation of Historic Architectural Heritage, as well as of the Survey and Representation of Historic Architecture acquired during their bachelor program. In particular, the student must possess knowledge of: History of Restoration, Diagnostics, material analysis of architecture.  It also required knowledge achieved from the course “”BIM and Digital Management for Architectural Heritage” such as management of BIM processes, ability to develop and manage 3D models.

Training objectives The course teaches how to develop a restoration project and how to articulate the production of the material necessary to manage a project by addressing different aspects ranging from national and international standards to an examination of the types of products that constitute a restoration project. Through theoretical lectures, which address the evolution of digital practices for the conservation of historical architecture, the course deals with the different processes of digital documentation aimed at the restoration of historical architecture, focusing on the reconstruction of virtual scenarios in which the works are subjected to digital simulations useful for the configuration of intervention actions on the built environment. Through laboratory activities, the student experiments with tools, software and methods to create databases and atlases on the degradations connected with building process management systems (e.g. H-BIM), thus enabling the student to master the management phases of a documentation and project development process that can be visualised through digital systems. KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OUTCOMES By the end of the course the student will have knowledge of:
  • The evolution of digital restoration applied to different national and international contexts;
  • The simulation practices of a complex project by setting up different types of data and checking the output of a digital simulation on a historical building;
  • The main uses of digital models for the management, promotion and development of interventions for the conservation and maintenance of historical architecture.
ABILITY OUTCOMES: SUBJECT-BASED PRACTICAL/PROFESSIONAL SKILLS   At the end of the course the student should know how to:
  • Manage a data set for the development of digital atlases on the state of buildings;
  • Manage information systems for the development of a restoration project also in terms of analysis and development of specifications and estimated metric calculations;
  • Carry out digital simulations on building transformation processes;
Manage planned management tools on historical architecture in relation to a conservation project.
 Program and content The course is articulated in a series of modules that address topics related to architectural restoration to achieve the intended learning objectives. List of lesson contents
  • From restoration to digital restoration, evolution of experiences and points of view.
  • The concept of Cultural Heritage in international legislation.
  • Virtual Restoration and Digital Restoration, considerations and opportunities.
  • Image Processing techniques applied to different case studies.
  • The restoration intervention applied to different scales and digital correspondence.
  • The preparation of a complex documentation system.
  • Databases for documentation, intervention and heritage management.
  • From the analysis of the built environment to the Databank.
  • From the Database to the Model.
  • From the Model to Simulation.
  • From simulation to intervention.
  • Simulation practices for consolidation.
  • Simulation practices on the project, pictorial reintegration’s and 3D reconstructions.
Description of laboratory activities The course enables the development of critical awareness, technical and operational skills through the practical application of theoretical concepts applied to a case study. Students will work on a real subject developing the exercises of analysis, data conversion and development of models and virtual restoration practices. During the laboratory hours students will work in the classroom to deepen their practical knowledge of the development of graphic products and models, carrying out their own restoration project that will be presented during the examination.  Teaching methods The 6 CFU course is structured around 23 hours of lectures, 12 hours of tutorials and 45 hours of laboratory work for a total of 80 hours. The student will be accompanied in the acquisition of the necessary knowledge through a course of frontal lectures where both important examples and case studies and operational procedures for the definition of workflows will be described. The laboratory activities focus on a specific case study that will be the subject of exercises and analysis by the student for which an information model will be developed that will collect the specificities of the readings on alterations and diagnostics. The model becomes the simulation tool for a conservation project. During the examination, the student will present his or her own restoration project supported by the digital product through which he or she proposes a simulation. The grade is made up of the result of the oral examination aimed at verifying the theoretical knowledge acquired during the course and the evaluation of the proposed conservation project.

 Reference books

      • Brandi, Theory of restoration, Firenze 2005.
      Texts for further study
      • Conti, Storia del restauro e della conservazione delle opere d’arte, Milano 1988.
      • Cappellini, La realtà virtuale per i beni culturali, Bologna 2000.
      • Dellepiane, Elaborazione di immagini digitali, ECIG, 2004.
      • Bennardi , R. Furferi, Il restauro virtuale tra ideologia e metodologia, Firenze 2007.
      • Limoncelli, Il restauro virtuale in archeologia, Roma 2012.

 Learning Evaluation Methods

Verification of acquired knowledge will take place through the delivery and evaluation of a digital restoration project. The student will present the criteria motivating the project choices and will describe the models and management systems produced within the course. An oral test will verify knowledge of the topics covered during the lectures. The course workshop is designed as an open working moment in which students will interface with teaching staff through a learning by doing process.
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