Publications / 2015 Proceedings of the 32nd ISARC, Oulu, Finland

IT Procedures for Simulation of Historical Building Restoration Site

Carlo Biagini, Pietro Capone, Vincenzo Donato, Nora Facchini
Pages 1-8 (2015 Proceedings of the 32nd ISARC, Oulu, Finland, ISBN 978-951-758-597-2, ISSN 2413-5844)
Abstract:

Dealing with renovation and restoration of historical building heritage, it often means to face several difficulties concerning the way of representing not only the ancient building and the design ideas, but also the phases of interventions on site. The designers have always to take into account a range of possible compatible solutions that avoid to endanger the cultural significance of the historical building. Traditional methods are often time consuming and barely efficient, because related to exchange of two-dimensional and paper-based support information. The Building Information Modeling can represent an answer to the above problems, allowing the users to model the three-dimensional compounds of the building and linking several information to it. This work intends to propose an innovative approach to the construction management of the historical building interventions, based on BIM technologies, facing different kinds of problems, such as: a) parametric modeling of historical buildings, starting from laser scanner survey: LOD (level of detail) definition and measurement accuracy related to modeling procedures; b) parametric modeling of the site and the several phases of the restoration works in a fixed schedule (4D dimension); c) 3D graphic representation of safety procedures and related tools. The study case was offered by the ancient Church of Mary's Saint Name in Mantua (Italy), built in 1748, which was seriously damaged during the earthquake, that occurred in Italy in 2012.

Keywords: BIM, Historical Building Information Modeling, Site Modeling, Site Simulation, Restoration Interventions Management.