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The contribution briefly illustrates the HeritageBot project, currently in the prototype phase, which concerns the construction of a drone structure with robotic legs. The system is equipped with high dexterity locomotion mobility and the possibility of small flights. Its platform, structured in modular mode, allows to host various sensors, both commercial and specially developed, in order to intervene in the processes of knowledge and detection of Cultural Heritage, in critical situations and conditions and particularly difficult accessibility.

Focus of this article is a procedure of knowledge for Built Cultural Heritage based on a model of gamification applied to scientific survey of the monuments. Automatically, the methodology is able to return scientific data (xyz and rgb) exploiting the potential of structure from motion capture systems.

The paper describes a project for the understanding of Cultural Heritage,
through experimental procedures that can provide scientifically measurable
results. The project, called HeGo (HeritageGo), provides for the creation of a
model of social and participatory interaction applied to surveys in archaeological,
architectural and urban contexts. The procedure is structured principally around
the voluntary participation of various “players/users” (tourists, students, ordinary

Il paper intende approfondire le possibilità e le criticità nell’utilizzo del Building Information Modeling come applicativo per la documentazione e gestione del patrimonio storico costruito, il cosiddetto H-BIM. Questa tematica, molto discussa dagli studiosi soprattutto negli ultimi anni, pone quesiti non ancora risolti sulla metodologia operativa e la possibilità di utilizzo in questo specifico campo di applicazione.

The 3D virtual modeling of any artifact involves the organized composition of digital elements. This process is common to any 3D modeling workflow but, when applied to BIM systems, shows a good correspondence in the construction processes between the virtual and the real world. In fact, any building can be considered as a coordinated set of simple technological elements, linked together by design logics and construction techniques that are quite predictable and controllable.

Negli ultimi decenni si è assistito ad un progressivo ampliamente delle tecniche di rappresentazione dell’architettura storica. La ricostruzione 3D del patrimonio culturale ha aperto la strada ad infinite possibilità, qui indagate per quel che concerne la modellazione digitale dei ponti romani imperiali e la loro restituzione geometrico-formale.

Rock art is one of the most significant aspects of Saharan cultural heritage. The recent critical political developments determined the inaccessibility of many sites, raising the risk of destruction of the artworks, already significantly endangered by natural and anthropic threats. It is urgent to propose concrete actions to improve the understanding of this heritage and raise awareness of its extraordinary value, as a testimony of the past, as well as a resource for the future.

Despite an undoubted awareness of the intangible aspects of culture in heritage studies, scholars continue to base their understanding of intangible heritage according to rationalist theories of perception, which accept only a single mode of perception—that which is bound to the empirical, sensorial and terrestrial world.

The attention towards the concepts of landscape, environment and territory and their mutual interrelationships, have engaged, since the early years of the twentieth century, the political class, the cultural and disciplinary world in the definition of new approaches to landscape protection and planning. The normative dispositions that followed over more than a century of debates reflect the evolution of the theoretical-cultural thought developed around the themes of definition, representation, evaluation and landscape planning.