HBIM for the Archaeology of Standing Buildings: Case Study of the Church of San Cipriano in Castelvecchio Calvisio (L’Aquila, Italy)

Cultural Heritage and earthquakes: a multidisciplinary approach to restoration sites

“…The acronym HBIM (Historic Building Information Modeling) was used for the first time in 2009, hypothesizing a new system for modeling historical buildings starting from a survey of the existing (Murphy et al, 2009), exploiting the advantages offered by a semantic modeling based on parametric elements (Garagnani 2015) connected to each other through a hierarchical structure of smart objects (Scianna, 2018). Following numerous experimentations that have taken place over the last few years on the historical and archaeological heritage, often with different scopes, HBIM is becoming a consolidated practice (Della to document the state of artefacts (Continenza et al 2018); to analyze the phenomena to which they are subject; to study their constructive processes diachronically (Scandurra et al, 2017); to manage the restoration sites (Brumana et al 2017) and, last but not least, to monitor the evolution of artefacts over time. This last use, referred to as asbuilt BIM has become of fundamental importance because it allows, as for new buildings, the concrete possibility of monitoring, and managing, the changes of buildings over time.…”

Volume 16 :2018 issue 3

“…In the United Kingdom, an organization called Historic England spearheads many conservation works of the country's heritage buildings by adopting this approach. In Italy, there are buildings such as the San Cipriano Church and St. Maria Church, which have been taken as HBIM case studies (Continenza, Redi Savini, Tata, & Trizio, 2018) to move forward with their culturally rich Roman buildings. In Turkey, there is an increasing awareness via summits and discussion to preserve Ottoman's empire architectural heritage within the region using the approach.…”

“…HBIM is a project simulation consisting of the 3D models of the historic building's components with links to all required information including the description about individual components and its nature. In many cases, this denotes a beginning of a new approach where the details about historical components can be shared and communicated visually, which has previously only been available to persons who could 'read plans' (Continenza et al, 2018;Antonoupoulou, 2017). In essence, HBIM can be used as an archive, information resource and acts as a management tool to aid future investigations on projects and research (Baik, 2017;Volk, et al, 2014;Murphy et al, 2013).…”

“…In essence, HBIM can be used as an archive, information resource and acts as a management tool to aid future investigations on projects and research (Baik, 2017;Volk, et al, 2014;Murphy et al, 2013). HBIM demands skillsets such as 3D modelling expertise, understanding of the approach, a lot of collaboration and it encourages industry players to relate to each other differently (Continenza et al, 2018;Antonoupoulou, 2017;Abdul Shukor et al, 2015). 3-Able to define building components into its elements HBIM permits better understanding about a component's nature in terms of its element and sub-elements (Baik, 2017;Baik, Alitany, Boehm, & Robson, 2014).…”

“…In HBIM, the communication between stakeholders can be made simpler, faster and easier to be shared with themselves (Continenza et al, 2018;Ali et al, 2017 Subscribing the analogy of economic development and environmental protection dilemma, in a mesoscale, the dilemma can also be brought to confront the urban development vis-à-vis environmental protection (Carley & Christie, 2017). The reconciliation, in this case, can be done by letting urban development undergo while keeping the ecological function intact, even though there are physical disturbances on environment.…”