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Cultural Heritage Documentation, Analysis and Management Using Building Information Modelling: State of the Art and Perspectives

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Mechatronics for Cultural Heritage and Civil Engineering

Part of the book series: Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering ((ISCA,volume 92))

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This chapter presents current issues relating to the use of a building information modelling (BIM) approach in the field of cultural heritage, which is better known as historic-BIM (H-BIM). Technological innovation in the field of automatic metric data acquisition (e.g., 3D laser scanning, digital photogrammetry techniques) requires data processing to produce a coherent parametric model that is congruent with metric survey information. Working with historical artefacts, this process becomes very complex, because the existing tools used to support BIM methodologies are mainly oriented towards new design interventions. From this perspective, the aim of our research is to explore the state of the art of current data acquisition techniques and their integration to obtain a master model, which is defined in the literature as an “inventory BIM model”. We will analyse the different scan-to-BIM approaches aimed at creating building object model (BOM) components that, using different acquisition techniques to obtain geometric data, allow the user to define the level of accuracy with which they are generated; in addition, the integrated development of new technologies for existing management (in terms of data enrichment of non-geometric information) will be analysed. Future research perspectives in this field are directed toward the design of a mechatronic system that optimizes computing systems, thus improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the entire process, and making use of a wealth of interdisciplinary knowledge in order to arrange a hierarchy of knowledge that can be shared with other professionals involved in interventions for the protection of cultural heritage.

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    The latest European guidelines concerning building information modelling (BIM) (2014/24/EU) require EU member states to adopt systems that allow the exchange of information through interoperable platforms using open exchange file formats.

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    Elaborated on the basis of Volk et. al. [17]

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    GSD = [pixel size * H]/f, where the pixel size is the dimension of the pixel on the sensor, H is the distance between the camera and the object, and f is the focal length. The common software for data processing are able to extract at a higher level a point each pixel.

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    For example, the wall component (whenever it is not necessary to describe their conservation status) could be resampled with a step of 2 cm, while details in doorways or windows could maintain high resolution.

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    More information could be found at: http://buildingparser.stanford.edu/method.html.

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    The H-BIM model is part of a research study conducted at University of Florence. The research group is composed by the following: Biagini C., Capone P., Donato V. and Facchini N. In particular, the H-BIM model was developed as part of a master’s thesis by Nora Facchini [49].

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    Filiberto Chiabrando & Massimiliano Lo Turco

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    Vincenzo Donato

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    Cettina Santagati

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Chiabrando, F., Donato, V., Lo Turco, M., Santagati, C. (2018). Cultural Heritage Documentation, Analysis and Management Using Building Information Modelling: State of the Art and Perspectives. In: Ottaviano, E., Pelliccio, A., Gattulli, V. (eds) Mechatronics for Cultural Heritage and Civil Engineering. Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, vol 92. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68646-2_8

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