NEW METHODOLOGIES FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE ENHANCEMENT: THE CASE STUDY OF AUTERI CHAPEL IN CATANIA FROM SURVEYING TO IMAGE BASED MODELING

Cettina Santagati

Abstract: This article is the outcome of a research on survey digital techniques for acquiring knowledge, documentation and enhancement of the architectural heritage. Through this research, the current low-cost image-based modeling techniques have been tried and tested. The goal was to identify an operative methodological way for the transmission of the cultural heritage through metrically reliable 3D photographic models that can be used both in the contexts of fruition and in 3D virtual repository (3D Icons, Europeana). In particular, in this article, I report the results of research applied to the Auteri Chapel, a micro-architecture of 1871, located in the monumental cemetery of Catania. The proposed methodology takes advantage of analytical drawing and survey tools to understand and decode not only the geometric and formal aspects of the architectural building but also the symbolic and semantic ones (use of symbolic shapes, search for beauty, meaning of decoration) related to the specific connotation of these architectures of memory.

Keywords: Surveying, Image-based modeling, Funerary Architecture, Digital Cultural Heritage

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2013.0211072