Machine Learning Experiences for Information Enrichment of HBIM Models: the DECAI Project

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In the management process of the architectural restoration site, we are witnessing the adoption of processes conducted largely in the traditional way increasingly alongside activities strongly influenced by new technologies. In particular, the new instruments for the metric survey return more and more information at very high resolution, progressively reducing the acquisition time. In recent years, In order to manage and structure these data, the disciplines of Representation and Geomatics have developed increasingly efficient restitution workflows by applying Building Information Modeling (BIM) processes to the built heritage (HBIM).  While the acquisition tools have evolved rapidly, the same cannot be said for the methodologies for managing the collected data and the tools for informed models. At the regard, there is a growing need to apply Machine Learning processes to improve data management and modelling in heritage restitution processes. 

The paper briefly presents the semi-automatic DECAI workflow for mapping architectural surfaces and their annotation in the HBIM environment. The case study is the elevation on Via Porta Praetoria, the facades of the hallway and the facades of the internal cavity of Palazzo Ansermin, in Aosta. The paper does not presume to replace the traditional survey procedures but rather to propose an integration and optimization, following a workflow that starts with a photogrammetric survey and ends with the informative enrichment of an HBIM model of the building.


Massimiliano Lo Turco, Andrea Tomalini
Department of Architecture and Design - DAD, Politecnico di Torino


Documentation of the waterways in the pavia flat land. Experience in detection with SLAM technology for the development of information models

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The research, promoted by the DAda-LAB Laboratory of the University of Pavia, aims to structure a methodology and an operational protocol for the documentation of water canals in the Pavia territory. This protocol appears necessary to optimize the various phases that characterize both the documentation activities and the three-dimensional graphic representation of the agricultural territories of the flat land and their canalization networks through information systems.

The study evaluates the most functional procedures to respect a infographics conformity in the building of reliable 3D models. 

The investigation activities see the construction of digital atlases on the elements that constitute the landscape.

The result aims to product an informatic system to promote territory knowledge. This product qualifies as a documentary corpus made up of models, census data, and more generally of information systems connected to point clouds and 3D surveys. The result allows obtaining technical information, functional to administrations and consortia to simplify and improve the management of the territory, with economic and productive advantages.


Sandro Parrinello, Silvia La Placa
Università degli Studi di Pavia, DICAr – Dipartimento di Ingeneria Civile e Architettura


HBIM for public administration management. The case study of Palazzo Vitelli alla Cannoniera.

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This paper reports the first results concerning the experimentation of information management of HBIM artefacts owned by municipalities, as a result of a research path aimed at determining methodologies and protocols for the representation of these classes of assets, with the aim of simulating future interactions with designers in correspondence with future public tenders.


F. Bianconi, M. Filippucci, A. Parisi, S. Battaglini
University of Perugia


Scan-to-HBIM: integrated survey and information modelling for the documentation of structural damage

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The research presents an experimental approach for the damage documentation of existing structures. The main aim is to identify a methodology from the integrated digital survey (range- and image-base) to BIM to synthesise quantitative information on the existing damage that can be exported for the structural assessments.


Simone Balin, Giuliana Cardani, Fausta Fiorillo
Politecnico di Milano


Index Volume 8

INDEX


Editorial
Cecilia Bolognesi, Cettina Santagati

Knowing the built heritage through digitised procedures. The index of masonry quality integrated in HBIM processes
Filippo Calcerano, Letizia Martinelli, Michele Calvano, Elena Gigliarelli 

Heritage BIM for the survey, representation and restoration of existing heritage, a case of study: the Marciana fortress on Elba island
Sara D’Ippolito, Laura Gianzi, Marzia Monaco

Mixed Reality experiences for the heritage of Francesco di Giorgio Martini:reconstruction of the Cagli’s fortress
Paolo Clini, Ramona Quattrini, Romina Nespeca, Mirco D’Alessio

Digital meets Opera: an interactive service model towards accessibility and sustainability.
Daniela De Luca, Francesca Maria Ugliotti

BIM-based Data Management in Built Heritage Life Cycle: a comparison of methods
Andrea Bongini, Vincenzo Donato, Carlo Biagini

City Information Modeling and seismic risk: integrated HBIM-GIS approaches for the management of post-earthquake scenarios
Federico Mario La Russa, Giulia Genovese

Geometric and information modelling of museums and collections: the Invisible Archaeology temporary exhibition at the Museo Egizio in Turin
Elisabetta Caterina Giovannini, Massimiliano Lo Turco, Andrea Tomalini

BIM for the management of the intervention on monumental architecture: the case study of former nineteenth century prison in Parma
Chiara Vernizzi, Roberto Mazzi  

Image-based elaborations to improve the HBIM level of development
Carla Ferreyra, Anna Sanseverino, Andrea di Filippo

BIM and IoT for Healthcare: digital models and services for care and assistance
Anna Mangiatordi


Editorial Vol. 08

New parametric objects

This number of Dienne has chosen the Digital Twin as the subject of its discussion, a development area that is intertwined with that of BIM, representing a first important evolution in terms of applications.

It is therefore very easy to find in the path leading to the completion of this more general theme, attempts to make the structure of the basic model dialogue with different data, which in fact oblige the implementation of increasingly advanced methods and tools to interface with complex relationships. .

These are the contents of this issue of Dienne; an issue that collects the best papers selected from those presented as part of the 3D Modeling and BIM conference held online on April 14, 2021, organized by Sapienza University of Rome where the in-depth study of HBIM applications crosses areas ranging from parameterization of degradation, to the creation of specific parametric objects, to the use of advanced methodologies through the VPL, to augmented reality applications for management.

The peculiarities of the BIM approach aimed at the recovery intervention on built heritage are highlighted in the contribution of Sara D’Ippolito, Laura Gianzi and Marzia Monaco which illustrates the experiments on the informative reliability of the model starting from historical surveys, information found on the web and digital surveys. In the same direction, the contribution of Chiara Vernizzi and Roberto Mazzi on the former prison of San Francesco del Prato in Parma which shows the maturity in the adoption of BIM processes for existing assets.

A critical evaluation of the BIM approach in the management and enhancement of museum heritage emerges in the contribution of Elisabetta Caterina Giovannini, Massimiliano Lo Turco and Andrea Tomalini who experiment with parametric and algorithmic approaches on the Egyptian Museum; the theme of the dissemination and conservation of cultural heritage, for a real-time visualization starting from an H-BIM model obtained from integrated digital survey techniques, is central in the contribution of Carla Ferreyra, Anna Sanseverino and Andrea di Filippo; on the other hand, the reflection conducted by Paolo Clini, Ramona Quattrini, Romina Nespeca and Mirco D’Alessio on the methods of narrating material and immaterial heritage leads to the innovative experimentation of mixed-reality techniques at the Rocca Torrione complex by Francesco Di Giorgio Martini.

Daniela De Luca and Francesca Maria Ugliotti experiment with the Digital Twin paradigm on Teatro Regio in Turin, configuring a dynamic and interactive model of the building that provides for a constant interaction between real and virtual space.

The working group made up of Andrea Bongini, Vincenzo Donato and Carlo Biagini faces the potential and current limits of some BIM-based approaches in the field of Facility Management by comparing two different processes for the acquisition and management of the parameters necessary for the phases of asset management of existing school buildings

In the context of historical heritage, both at the architectural and urban scale, the issues relating to the assessment of seismic vulnerability and post-earthquake management are of great interest, which require the collection and systemization of heterogeneous data, also through Visual Programming Languages, for the creation and implementation of H-BIM workflows as in the case of the contribution of Filippo Calcerano, Letizia Martinelli, Michele Calvano and Elena Gigliarelli or of an approach to the urban scale as reported in the contribution of Federico Mario La Russa and Giulia Genovese for the creation of a responsive City Information Modeling.

Finally, the contribution by Anna Mangiatordi illustrates the development of a digital model of assisted living for the elderly for the control and management of information flows related to the insertion of Artificial Intelligence systems into the environment, through a BIM data sharing platform based on on open and interoperable information processes.

In the continuation of the next issues, the ongoing evolutionary process that pushes BIM beyond its first vocations will certainly be able to carry on all the research areas undertaken up to now and show us how fertile and interesting developments are here.


Cecilia Bolognesi, Cettina Santagati


Knowing the built heritage through digitised procedures. The index of masonry quality integrated in HBIM processes

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The research aims to integrate the Index of Masonry Quality into a Heritage BIM workflow, with the support of Visual Programming Language (VPL). The study is part of a broader set of  investigation methods for the digitisation of built heritage for facilitating the management and accessibility of information. By reducing analyses’ costs and time, it is suitable for urban scale evaluation of vernacular historic centres.


Filippo Calcerano, Letizia Martinelli, Michele Calvano, Elena Gigliarelli
ISPC Institute of Heritage Science, National Research Council of Italy


Heritage BIM for the survey, representation and restoration of existing heritage, a case of study: the Marciana fortress on Elba island

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The HBIM methodology applied to a historical asset is an extremely interesting topic for the study of Italian heritage. In order to reach a good level of information about the fortress, several steps have been performed using IT and web tools. Thanks to the historiographical analysis we have been able to hypothesize a probable date of origin, while surveys with laser scanners, drones and photography – for the identification of decay form – were indispensable for architectural modeling. Appreciable results were obtained both with the representation of the model and with its informative reliability, implementing the digital twin through the design of recovery interventions and the management of times and costs.


Sara D’Ippolito, Laura Gianzi, Marzia Monaco


Mixed Reality experiences for the heritage of Francesco di Giorgio Martini: reconstruction of the Cagli’s fortress

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The present work constitutes a significant and innovative step in the testing of solutions for the interaction with digital facsimiles, in particular it investigates the potential of Mixed reality applications for the communication of three-dimensional modelling projects. In this case, the 3D reconstruction of the Rocca-Torrione complex by F. di Giorgio Martini in Cagli is the exemplar case study on which is possible to test the principles of the reference charts in the field of Digital Cultural Heritage (DCH) but also to reflect on methodologies of storytelling for the tangible and intangible heritage. Furthermore, these studies, together with the local and regional networks, represent the precondition for the creation of a Study Centre on Francesco di Giorgio Martini which will be based in Cagli.


Paolo Clini, Ramona Quattrini, Romina Nespeca, Mirco D’Alessio
Università Politecnica delle Marche


Digital meets Opera: an interactive service model towards accessibility and sustainability.

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This paper presents the results of a research aimed at demonstrating the potentialities and cur-rent limits of some BIM-based approaches in the field of Facility Management. Today the man-agement and interpretation of large amounts of data of different nature and disciplinary scope is one of the most relevant problems in the definition of new and more efficient information manage-ment processes in the construction sector. 

Two different processes are compared for the acquisition and management of the parameters needed for the asset management phases of existing school buildings. The first method involves the compilation of schedules within the BIM authoring software by means of an appropriate mapping of the parameters with reference to the information exchange scheme established by COBie (Construction-Operations Building Information exchange); the second method uses a spe-cific software for FM, dRofus, which is able to create a direct link with the BIM authoring software for the bi-lateral writing of the parameters. Through a comparative analysis, the results of the case study G. Rodari Primary and Infant School in Florence are discussed.


Daniela De Luca, Francesca Maria Ugliotti
Politecnico di Torino