The use of HBIM models as a tool for dissemination and public use management of historical architecture: A review

Abstract

Disseminating detailed and accessible information about the built heritage is fundamental to help understand the value and meaning of that heritage to society. Recent research highlights the potential of the Historic Building Information Modeling (HBIM) system for managing and disseminating heritage. However, this area is still in an early stage of development. This study aims to present a state-of-the-art review on the use of HBIM for both disseminating the value of historic architecture and managing the public use of heritage assets. The research methodology consisted of extensive bibliographic computer database searches of the study topic through specialized search tools. To this end, significant keywords have been used, such as HBIM to culture dissemination, HBIM to ICT and HBIM to public use management, among others. A total of 85 papers were initially selected. After a preliminary reading, 37 studies have been selected for this review. Later, a quantitative and critical analysis identifying the main themes and perspectives of these academic papers has been carried out. The results indicate that technological solutions have been developed to convert HBIM into models suitable for portable devices, the purpose of which is to offer virtual tours (VR) and augmented reality (AR) applications, as well as architectural heritage maintenance applications. There are also gaps in knowledge that have allowed us to establish a starting point for future research. As a conclusion, we can advance that it is essential to further the heritage interpretation of HBIM information so that the non-expert public can better understand architectural assets and their history. Also observable is the need for optimizing HBIM processes for heritage diffusion and public use management. Finally, we also noted it would be very useful to identify the most efficient way of collecting and processing data in order to achieve the best HBIM technical information for dissemination purposes.

Hbim and the 20th Century Steel Building Heritage – A Procedure Suitable for the Construction History in Italy

“…At the same time, this tool could be interactive, so as to guarantee the collaboration of different players, each one with his own expertise. The limit shown by these Italian studies, moreover few in number, is the application of a conventional BIM approach, the same developed for new constructions, whereas it could have been necessary to merge this approach with methodologies studied for historical heritage, recently known as HBIM (Murphy et al, 2009;Oreni et al, 2014;Volk et al, 2014;Dore and Murphy, 2015;Brusaporci et al, 2018;López et al, 2018;Pocobelli et al, 2018;Salvador García et al, 2018). Murphy affirms that HBIM is "a novel prototype library of parametric objects, based on historic architectural data and a system of cross platform programmes for mapping parametric objects onto point cloud and image survey data" (Murphy et al, 2009), whereas other researchers state that it is "a multidisciplinary system consisting in the construction of smart objects (parameterized on the basis of architectural rules and treatises) on the data deriving from the building survey" (Brusaporci et al, 2018).…”

Reflexiones y criterios relativos a la creación de modelos BIM de edificios históricos

“…Estos beneficios han animado el análisis de la aplicación del entorno BIM en el marco del patrimonio cultural, derivándose de ella el concepto de HBIM (Murphy, McGovern y Pavia 2009). Son variadas las revisiones sobre el tema realizadas hasta la fecha, centradas en el modelado y la implantación en plataformas BIM (Pocobelli et al 2018), en la tecnología y los componentes BIM (Logothetis, Delinasiou y Stylianidis 2015), en los distintos enfoques metodológicos y las herramientas (López et al 2018), en las dimensiones y niveles de madurez (Merchán et al 2018), en los usos y los protocolos (Jordan et al 2018;Salvador, García-Valldecabres y Viñals 2018), así como en los gemelos digitales y la conservación preventiva (Jouan y Hallot 2020). Sin embargo, no se ha reflexionado sobre la creación del modelo HBIM partiendo de las características específicas y valores propios de la arquitectura histórica, vacío que pretende abordar este trabajo.…”

An online platform to unify and synchronise heritage architecture information

“…HBIM involves multiple stakeholders that usually work in different geographic locations, which makes collaboration challenging. Therefore, different authors have suggested that a possible solution would be the creation of a Common Data Environment (CDE) to synchronise information in real time (Du et al, 2018;Li et al, 2018;Salvador García et al, 2018;Oreni et al, 2014). The CDE is discussed in the next session.…”