Documentation, conservation, and reuse planning activities for disused cultural heritage

Abstract

The present contribution illustrates the documentation and setting up of a digital database of a portion of Bellisomi-Vistarino Palace in Pavia (Italy), a relevant historical asset due to its artistic value. Despite recent restoration work, there are still disused portions of the complex, including the garden, the loggia and the rooms on the ground floor that overlook it. These portions are the elements this paper deals with. The approach to a small portion of the building is a pilot case from the perspective of a broader work of integral documentation of the whole complex. The aim is to define digital support for diagnostic and restoration planning activities from the perspective to enhance and create a new cultural attraction for the city, using the Foundation of the University of Pavia, already settled in the Palace and their organizational skills and networks. This is achieved by structuring a tridimensional digital twin and database connected to it to monitor the assets and generate digital environments for cultural and touristic valorisation.

Information System as Tool for Cultural Heritage Documentation and Preservation. Protocol Structuring and Testing on a Case Study

“…The case study is a portion of the Palazzo, displaying the characteristic alterations and pathologies of a disused place lacking ordinary monitoring and maintenance. Being this article more focused on the processes and methodologies, the following paragraphs will focus on the actions and the development phases rather than on the historical notions of the specific built heritage, for which reference is made in previous publications (Vicini, 1978;Forni, 1989;Erba, 2000;Doria, 2018;Forni, 2020;Doria, 2023).…”