HBIM for Conservation: A New Proposal for Information Modeling

Abstract

Thanks to its capability of archiving and organizing all the information about a building, HBIM (Historical Building Information Modeling) is considered a promising resource for planned conservation of historical assets. However, its usage remains limited and scarcely adopted by the subjects in charge of conservation, mainly because of its rather complex 3D modeling requirements and a lack of shared regulatory references and guidelines as far as semantic data are concerned. In this study, we developed an HBIM methodology to support documentation, management, and planned conservation of historic buildings, with particular focus on non-geometric information: organized and coordinated storage and management of historical data, easy analysis and query, time management, flexibility, user-friendliness, and information sharing. The system is based on a standalone specific-designed database linked to the 3D model of the asset, built with BIM software, and it is highly adaptable to different assets. The database is accessible both with a developed desktop application, which acts as a plug-in for the BIM software, and through a web interface, implemented to ensure data sharing and easy usability by skilled and unskilled users. The paper describes in detail the implemented system, passing by semantic breaking down of the building, database design, as well as system architecture and capabilities. Two case studies, the Cathedral of Parma and Ducal Palace of Mantua (Italy), are then presented to show the results of the system’s application.

Building Archaeology Documentation and Analysis Through Open Source Hbim Solutions via Nurbs Modelling

“…Since stratigraphic data is an exclusive historical information that cannot be find outward from the context, it become fundamental also for historical buildings studies and for this reason it also become a particular feature to be included inside a HBIM project for building archaeology purposes, because it enables to understand transformations and evolutions of the architectural stratification (constructive and destructive actions on wall surfaces) and then allowing to comprehend mechanical behaviours affecting the static asset (Diara et al, 2018;Beltramo et al, 2019). In this sense, the inclusion of stratigraphic analysis -and then the surface peculiarities of historical architectures (also including weathering processes) -as main historical information inside a HBIM platform could become essential for management and monitoring processes (Diara et al, 2018;Bruno et al, 2019;Beltramo et al, 2019;Pocobelli et al, 2019;Trizio et al, 2019).…”

“…In this sense, information concerning historical buildings could be different, from land concessions to written archives, from historical pictures or paintings to past restorations and human memories. Although it is considered a stable research field in Geomatics, the application of BIM methodologies to building archaeological documentation and analysis as well as Cultural Heritage in general is a novel and pending study that could avoid data fragmentation derived from traditional studies, establishing a watershed between this new court of documentation through BIM methodologies and traditional building archaeology analysis, in several cases characterized by paper-based works that are mostly disconnected from the metric and architectural context and from other digital studies (Diara et al, 2018;Beltramo et al, 2019;Bruno et al, 2019) However, the integration of information not directly designed to be included inside a BIM platform is still a vivid problem as well as a great academic challenge, especially since it depends also on testing experimental and unconventional ways to integrate this kind of historical data on BIM platforms (Murphy et al, 2013;Barazzetti L., 2016;Beltramo et al, 2019;Pocobelli et al, 2019). For these reasons this project has been affected by three questions and purposes that establish in the same time the objectives of this project: 1) Is it possible to create a custom HBIM for Building Archaeology purposes?…”

Chimera: A Bim+gis System for Cultural Heritage

“…Many different projects have been developed to support the needs of each particular case of study: Batawa (Faie et al, 2011), Parma Cathedral (Bruno et al, 2019), Cortijo del Fraile (Carvajal-Ramírez et al, 2019), Town Hall And Lonja Ofalcañiz (Agustín et al, 2019), Milan Cathedral (Achille et al, Springer, 2020), San Marco in Venice (Fassi et al, 2017), Sacro Monte Calvario di Domodossola (Tommasi et al, 2019) and the other Sacri Monti (Achille et al, 2019), Sultan Mehmet Fatih II Mosque (Di Stefano et al, 2019) and many others. This strategy fails to cover all the needs of all CH cases, due to the intrinsic BIM limitations, and can accomplish only parts of the requirements or specific situations.…”

As-Built BIM for a Fifteenth-Century Chinese Brick Structure at Various LoDs

“…Garagnani employed the Revit application programming interface (API) to develop plug-ins for as-built modeling [15]. API was also adopted by Bruno for database customization in Revit [45]. Yang integrated a built-in visual programming tool of Revit (Dynamo) and an ontology semantic to provide components with accurate geometry and self-defined knowledge [46].…”