Michele Calvano

Web Spherical Panorama for Cultural Heritage 3D Modeling

Among the several information available on web the spherical panoramas by Google can be an important reference for the 3D models elaboration of urban contexts and historic buildings, difficult to access or even destroyed as a result of wars or natural disasters. Starting from the spherical photogrammetry, thoroughly tested and used by some scholars, the goal of this research was to verify the reliability in the use of spherical panoramas by Google in the architectural and urban survey, considered that in some cases such as in the recent earthquake that hit central Italy, these images represent the only “visual” evidence of something that no longer exists.

Represented Models and Typological Algorithms: The Role of Parametric Models for the Design of Product

The design project in its evolution from idea to object requires investigations that make use of comparison among all models. The models, to be useful to the design process, must be easily editable in order to make quick assessments of the product that is being designed. The algorithm design, so far implicitly present in the mind of the designer, becomes a sort of conduct code of the product that can be explained by leaving some modification variables open. The conception of the behaviour becomes an integral part of the product and this is being resolved by the construction of a logical sequence with which compel the form to comply with the basic functional parameters, useful to classify the model within a “typological family”.

Visual technologies and virtual restoration the Foro Mussolini (1939-1941) by Oriolo Frezzotti in Littoria, Latina (Italy).

Enhancement of the cultural heritage is not simply a matter of preserving material objects but comes full circle only when the heritage can be enjoyed and used by the community. This is the rationale behind this presentation: the application to exploring projects for the building complex of Foro Mussolini in Littoria (now Latina), by the architect Oriolo Frezzotti. Starting with consistent iconographic documentation integrated with bibliographic research and comparison with similar cases, the historical process was retraced and interpreted, reconstructed three-dimensional hypotheses of the figural unity were formulated, and interactive application was created. The application refers to the area of “virtual restoration”, the only possibility for non-material histories and works, a field in which visual technologies can prolong the critical “eye” to which recomposition of the figural combination is entrusted.