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Modelling Based on a Certified Level of Accuracy: The Case of the Solimene Façade

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The advances in surveying techniques based on high resolution 3D laser scanners and photo shot data sets make it possible to measure the deviation between the numerical experimental model and the mathematical model. The former model is discontinuous but objectively defined on the bases of the precision of the instrument whereas the latter is continuous but abstract in its analogically idealized geometrical form. By sharing survey data it is possible to devise interoperable workflows which are useful in the design activities of architects and engineers. This paper discusses the convenience of sharing survey data to manage models and information presenting a case study of the façade of Paolo Soleri’s Solimene factory as a pilot procedure to organize a shared and interoperable workflow.

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Notes

  1. Legislative Decree no. 42 of 22 January 2004, Codice dei Beni Culturali e del Paesaggio (legal code governing the cultural and landscape heritage).

  2. http://www.amorvacui.org/?p=128.

  3. The copies signed by Francesco Immormino, who performed the statics analysis (Zampino 1995), are stored in Vietri’s city hall.

  4. One such code, for instance, is “E203-2013 Building Information Modeling and Digital Data Exhibit”, a contract documenting the contents of the main design elements according to the design phase they describe, periodically updated and published online (https://www.aiacontracts.org/contract-documents/19026-building-information-modeling-and-digital-data-exhibit).

  5. Faro Laser Scanner Focus 3D 130 HDR. Phase shift laser scanner; precision ± 2 mm; range: 0–130 m; integrated metric photo-camera (> 6 MP); integrated GPS antenna; acquisition speed: min. 976.000 pti/sec; scan angles: 360° horizontal–300° vertical.

  6. Several interpretation mistakes might be made because of the lack of stereoscopic vision and the difficulty in adequately juxtaposing the picture onto the model when the perspective does not coincide with the perspective of the photo shot.

  7. The signal’s latency delay enables the software to interpret the values as “peaks” and “valleys” of the surfaces, which is not the case for reflective and transparent surfaces where acquisition is much more complex.

  8. UNI 11337:2017. Edilizia e opere di ingegneria civile—Gestione digitale dei processi informativi delle costruzioni—Parte 1: Modelli, elaborati e oggetti informativi per prodotti e processi.

  9. See the earlier note regarding “AIA E203-2013: Building Information Modeling and Digital Data Exhibit”.

  10. Italian legislative degree of 18 April 2016, no. 50.

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The research of Umberto Palmieri has been supported with funds from the University Luigi Vanvitelli under the Valere Plus programme, announcement D.R. 102 of 01/02/2019. The survey was carried out by by Halyna Karmazyn, scholar of extraordinary diligence, today an engineer. The English translation from the original Italian is by Giuseppina Nuzzo, lecturer, Department of Engineering the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”.

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Rossi, A., Palmieri, U. Modelling Based on a Certified Level of Accuracy: The Case of the Solimene Façade. Nexus Netw J 22, 615–630 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00004-019-00474-z

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