UGOD Seminar | NEW VISUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR PROMOTING CULTURAL HERITAGE
This contribution focuses on the relationship between informative models, databases and innovative visualization tools, as crucial inputs for the knowledge and management of cultural heritage and for the interaction with the design process. Along with the ever-growing development of survey, storage and analysis technologies, upgrading the representation tools can support the interpretation and processing of the new available information assets. The Tu-CULT research project has the purpose to acquire, store, process and disseminate data regarding the monuments of the city of Padua, studying how the information and communication technologies (ICT) contribute to the management of the architectural heritage and to the design of transformational scenarios involving the monuments. Specifically, we address the issues of digital survey and archiving, 3D information modelling, and multimedia visualization for a multi-level access to the collected documents and the developed scenarios.
Full Professor (ICAR 17-Drawing), Director of Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering at the University of Padova, where he is Coordinator of the Master Degree Program in Building Engineering and Architecture (unique cycle). Coordinator and member of the Scientific Committee for Civil Engineering and Architecture at UniPD, he is also responsible of the Laboratory of Drawing and Representation (LDR) and the Laboratory of Information Modeling (LIM) at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering (DICEA at UniPD). He is responsible for the survey, representation, and digital rendition of the Engineering campus. He published several essays on the theory and history of methods of representation, dealing, most recently, with the use of ICT for research in the field of interoperable and semantic representation.
His researches deal with:
• Geometric-configurative interpretation of architectural surfaces: the construction of Padua domes;
• Representational codes for the verification of landscape design;
• New “tools” for the Architectural and Urban Historic Transformations Visualization, Multimedia
Representation, and Communication;
• Building Information Modeling (BIM), Scan to BIM & HBIM;
• Interoperable Systems for the Cultural Heritage Management and Communication;
• Virtual Museum and Virtual in Museums.