ABSTRACT
Tools for the digital representation of the built environment are constantly evolving. Thanks to technological innovation, it is possible to create digital platforms that reproduce the ontologies of objects at different scales. This is also possible through integrating data produced by different tools operating at different scales and allowing the connection between the information of buildings and that of the territory in which they are located.
The significant experiments in this sense have as their object the digital replication of the links that the building has with the territory through the construction of complex databases that replicate the characteristics of the territory – through Territorial Information Systems – and the characteristics of the building – through the modelling of building information.
The most consolidated experiences of graphic databases are related to managing the built heritage; however, some experiments are also beginning in different fields.
In the health and medical field, the applications of GIS and BIM are becoming increasingly widespread: the creation of epidemiological maps through GIS and the construction of BIM platforms for hospital facilities. The contribution intends to outline a state of the art on some applications that relate GIS and BIM platforms to outline the advantages of this integration in the management of medical-healthcare facilities and the relations it has with the surrounding environment.
Andrea Sias
Dipartimento di Architettura, Design e Urbanistica, UNISS