Ricerc@Sapienza

The use of digital technologies to study architecture and landscape has begun to represent an innova- tive aspect of the research when it started to allow the dynamic association (as input and output) of images and alphanumeric data: the different combination of this information through inferences and algorithms and the consequent generation of new data has freed digitisation from a strictly instrumental role making it a new methodological approach in itself.

The current reality of the historic center of Rome shows how in recent decades the facies of some of the city's districts have been modified, sometimes compromised and conditioned, by interventions not just finalized to restoration and/or maintenance, but rather strong adaptations and also by the so-called re-use or adaptive re-use, often applied to entire building, for touristic use. The diffusion, perhaps in some cases excessive, of new hotels, Bed and breakfast (B&b), Relais etc...