An ICT instrument developed to represent BKM knowledge relating to a given building, and specifically to the design process that went into creating the building. This application aims to be a supporting instrument for actors collaborating in the process; it simultaneously achieves analysis using the specialized knowledge of each actor, as well as the interaction that occurred between the actors. The basic concept of the BKM model focuses on the concept that design activity is the result of the complex interaction between multiple entities. Each individual entity and its relationships with others is defined by: ‘meaning’, a series of ‘properties’, and ‘rules’. This is accompanied by possible variations during the design process. The BKM model employs a formal language based on ontologies, to assist the actors to model or eventually re-model the entities and the rules that are assumed in their knowledge domain.
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Drawing, Information, and Design: Tools and Perspective for Conservation
Donatella Fiorani (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) and Marta Acierno (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Copyright: © 2017
|Pages: 32
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0675-1.ch012
Abstract
Although widely employed within the Architectural Heritage conservation process, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) techniques still present many serious issues for the discipline. Current research highlights a possible methodological approach to devise an ICT instrument that could support activities for Cultural Heritage conservation, while maintaining full respect for the specifics of the discipline. Reviewing current ICT and Architecture Engineering and Construction (AEC) applications, it is possible to note that the proposed approach is at the moment reversed: modelling does not arise as the projection of a future object, but rather from the knowledge needed to represent an existing site as accurately as possible. The proposed goal, reflecting the operative methodology of the conservation process, seems to offer a greater range of representativeness and to resolve, at least, some of the critical topics that have arisen from the application of ICT to Cultural Heritage to date.