An Information System for Medieval Archaeology Based on Photogrammetry and Archaeological Database: The Shawbak Castle Project

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Abstract:Since the Renaissance, the remains, myths and visual representations of ancient Rome have influenced not only European culture but also the architecture and urban planning of the big cities of Europe and of the Americas through the process of colonization. The University of Caen Basse-Normandie (France) has a famous visual representation of ancient Rome in the scale model of Paul Bigot, a French architect who lived at the beginning of the 20th century. This exceptional part of our cultural heritage has been the pretext for a virtual reconstruction of ancient Rome. The technologies used and, in particular, the interactive visit with access to ancient source materials give a new life to the myth. Our team has developed a fully interactive model of ancient Rome which allows a visitor to move freely in a full-scale city and enter the main public buildings as well as some private apartments. The aim is both scientific and didactic. Scholars can use the model as a regularly updated database for reference and possible experiments. The general public can visualize a world that is now beyond their reach. This paper will focus on a particular example ======================================== HISTORICAL SOCIAL HOUSING: SMART ANALYSIS AND DESIGN FOR CONSERVATION AND ENERGY REGENERATION Abstract:The article presents the results of a methodological study aimed at the development of an integrated, intelligent and expeditious system for the understanding, evaluation, and upgrading of energy efficiency in historical urban social housing neighborhood's. The possibilities offered by GIS and ICT systems were explored for the analysis and planning of building and energy improvements. The purpose of the study was to provide a support tool for upgrade projects planned for social housing which would include the multiple variables necessary for an understanding of the transformation process which led to the current state of the buildings, and which would be able to provide alternatives and solutions for their regeneration.

Use of Geographical Information System Approaches for the Diagnosis of San Isidoro Ruins (Madrid, Spain)

“…On the contrary, one of the main advantages of the GIS approach is the possibility of working directly with 2D raster data which makes its application easier and faster. Thanks to this it is possible to analyze the heritage at different scales, from city scale for evaluating the natural and anthropogenic hazards (Agapiou et al, 2015;Ortiz et al, 2014) , to building-scale for evaluating the building (Campanaro et al, 2016;Drap et al, 2012;Sánchez-Aparicio et al, 2020) , fusing multidisciplinary and multisource information. This fusion makes the development of complex queries that facilitate the diagnosis, restoration and conservation of the buildings possible.…”

Integrated Imaging Approaches Supporting the Excavation Activities. Multi-Scale Geospatial Documentation in Hierapolis (Tk)

“…These methods and techniques have been considered, according to the archaeological demands about multi-scale documentation, with two main aims: firstly, the support to the documentation of the landscape areas that have been subjected to extended investigations in a larger scale of their territorial extension. Then, for helping the analyses aimed at ancient structures interpretation or focused on specific excavation operations in the large-scale dimension (stratigraphic analysis, geophysics prospection, archaeometry examinations, etc), as is reported as well in Adamopoulos et al 2017, Katsianis et al 2008, Drap et al 2012. These aspects have been tackled in some of the areas recently investigated from the Italian Archaeological Mission, where the Geomatics applied research has been aligned and integrated into a multi-faceted project of joint research addresses: the Multidisciplinary approach to Hierapolis of Phrygia studies that is an Italian relevant research project founded in 2016 (PRIN2015).…”