La ricerca mostra i risultati di uno studio più ampio finalizzato alla conoscenza e alla valorizzazione del Jardines el Capricho, sito a Madrid in Spagna. Gli studi sono stati condotti seguendo due fasi: una prima fase che ha consentito di conoscere l'evoluzione storica del Parco grazie all'analisi dei documenti d'archivio e una seconda fase finalizzata, invece, alla conoscenza dello stato attuale dei luoghi ed alla comprensione delle caratteristiche architettoniche e naturalistiche. Attraverso il rilievo strumentale con fotogrammetria terrestre è stato possibile comprendere la morfologia e la geometria di alcune delle architetture e degli spazi a verde e la relativa elaborazione di disegni bidimensionali e modelli 3D. I risultati della ricerca sono incentrati sul rilievo fotogrammetrico di tre elementi architettonici: il templete de Bacos, el Abejero ed el Ermitaño del Capricho. In seguito, le metodologie applicate per la conoscenza del luogo saranno la base per l'utilizzo prossimo di strumenti tecnologici avanzati, per la fruizione virtuale del sito oggetto di studio. Parole chiaveJardines El Capricho, rilievo, fotogrammetria, rappresentazione

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Immersive virtual reality allows showing people virtual environments with high levels of presence, realism, and “feeling of being”, as if they were in the real world. With this aim, virtual environments must provide proper light distributions and elicit sensations similar to those seen in the real world. So far, experiments with human subjects are the most effective way to evaluate the accuracy of virtual reality in reproducing real spaces. This paper investigates the role of subjective assessments in lighting research using virtual reality. According to the review results, the investigations aimed at using immersive virtual reality for lighting can mainly be divided into three groups: (i) comparison between virtual and physical environments, (ii) analysis of different lighting scenarios, and (iii) investigation of users’ interaction with the virtual model. On the one hand, the results show that immersive virtual reality is a useful tool for research and design in lighting. On the other hand, they highlight the limitations that still need to be overcome. Finally, the main findings and gaps concerning the subjective assessment were listed.

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