Within the track on Building Engineering and Architecture, we tackle the design, modelling, and simulation of topics mainly coming from research fields in building technologies, survey and digital representation, cultural heritage preservation, urban planning and architectural design. The research paths developed within this track are multiscale, dealing with urban scale, building scale, or technologies and building details scale, and multipurpose, addressing both theoretical questions and applied processes.
Most of the research topics are developed in relation to global environmental challenges, urban space and population, within the UN 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Cities and Communities frame, and according to the paradigm of the 3S City: Smart, Sustainable and Safe related to the variability of urban phenomena. Within these research paths, several innovative applications like those involving the additive manufacturing process, or virtual/augmented reality are also considered and developed., modeled, and investigated within the DeMSE program.
Several researches deal with the development of technologies and innovative processes for survey and architectural and landscape representation, analysis activities for defining knowledge-based development strategies, safeguarding and improving connection urban and territorial living. Within this framework multidisciplinary researches are developed in the field of documentation activities for building heritage archives, databases for the study and enhancement of architectural complexes. Activities aim at integrated and technologically advanced systems for the protection of artistic and cultural heritage, capable of managing different levels of reading and perceptual sensibility analysis and research on architectural, urban and green landscape.
Other research activities focuses on the use of methodologies and tools for managing complex informative apparatus of Cultural Heritage, following the needings to organize extended digital database obtained from the application of technological tools. B.I.M. (Building Information Modeling) and G.I.S. systems are applied and tested both in the field of Cultural Heritage where the challenge aimed at identifying operative methodologies is still an open field of experimentation, and also in innovative applications focused on high complexity model, such as digital twins.