Unified survey as cognitive tool

The objectives of the survey defined as “unified”, deduced from the research in progress, provide for a philological-critical approach for documentation, knowledge and management in the field of Cultural Heritage as recognized by the Code of Cultural Heritage and Landscape. The digital revolution has made possible new ways of representing metric-geometric data acquired through advanced indirect survey technologies which nevertheless confirm the traditional concept of Survey as a complex cognitive act at different scales, from territorial to architectural detail. The different operations and procedures that in a transversal approach contribute to the constitution of a complex discipline are systematized in a process that allows to implement the current methods of data processing and visualization in order to exploit and disseminate final scientific results, both in portable and slender, which in more sophisticated three-dimensional views, as well as making visible the convenience of the model and its compliance with historical sources. The scenario that emerged from the analysis of the scientific literature shows how it is not possible to attribute to the technologies present on the market this value of comprehensive information collectors: on the contrary, this holistic approach constitutes the principle of integrated / advanced modeling, conceived within this research as a process of representation of architectural knowledge, which is configured as a complex procedure that this study has led to define a unified survey, as further step compared to integrated survey