The paper focuses on the opportunities offered by digital tools in managing existing architectures (in this case, a 20th Century masterpiece, the Museum of the Treasury of the Cathedral of S. Lorenzo in Genoa, designed by Franco Albini, 1952-1957)). Any path undertaken facing the built heritage, be it conservation and preservation, modification and transformation, or even total cancellation, can no longer be seen as an arbitrary choice, but must be included in a process of sustainable management, in which digital technologies can play an important role to better qualify the whole process. On occasion of an intervention of conservation and adaptation of spaces and exhibition structures of the Museum of the Treasury, the working group of the Department DSA has taken a trip back through recent history, inside the elegance and power of an abstract form whose value is enhanced by the technical sophistication of the design choices, materiality and the way of execution: an exemplary encounter between art and technique, peculiarities of the twentieth century. Touching the subject, reading the genesis and realization through the re-discovery and reading of written documents, verifying, through a rigorous survey campaign, the perfect geometries designed by Albini, rediscovering the meaning of formal, spatial and constructive solutions were steps of an essential path which allowed to separate ourselves by immediate emotions, and to slowly enter into the spirit and the reasons of the work. Within this path, all the collected data have been organized in a relational GIS system able to collect information of different nature (images, raster and vector, texts, numerical) and provenience, ensuring their storage and continuous updating. This data-base (easily transferable into other software packages like ACCESS or REVIT) is the basis for construction of a BIM (Building Information Model), starting from the construction of the three-dimensional parametric model of the complex to which are anchored the different alphanumeric data and graphics.

Material, Immaterial, Perception and Suggestion. Intervening on Modern Architecture through Digital Technologies

FRANCO, GIOVANNA
2014-01-01

Abstract

The paper focuses on the opportunities offered by digital tools in managing existing architectures (in this case, a 20th Century masterpiece, the Museum of the Treasury of the Cathedral of S. Lorenzo in Genoa, designed by Franco Albini, 1952-1957)). Any path undertaken facing the built heritage, be it conservation and preservation, modification and transformation, or even total cancellation, can no longer be seen as an arbitrary choice, but must be included in a process of sustainable management, in which digital technologies can play an important role to better qualify the whole process. On occasion of an intervention of conservation and adaptation of spaces and exhibition structures of the Museum of the Treasury, the working group of the Department DSA has taken a trip back through recent history, inside the elegance and power of an abstract form whose value is enhanced by the technical sophistication of the design choices, materiality and the way of execution: an exemplary encounter between art and technique, peculiarities of the twentieth century. Touching the subject, reading the genesis and realization through the re-discovery and reading of written documents, verifying, through a rigorous survey campaign, the perfect geometries designed by Albini, rediscovering the meaning of formal, spatial and constructive solutions were steps of an essential path which allowed to separate ourselves by immediate emotions, and to slowly enter into the spirit and the reasons of the work. Within this path, all the collected data have been organized in a relational GIS system able to collect information of different nature (images, raster and vector, texts, numerical) and provenience, ensuring their storage and continuous updating. This data-base (easily transferable into other software packages like ACCESS or REVIT) is the basis for construction of a BIM (Building Information Model), starting from the construction of the three-dimensional parametric model of the complex to which are anchored the different alphanumeric data and graphics.
2014
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