Parametric Deconstruction of the Technological Elements of the Sassi of Matera. Towards Digital Heritage Management

Digital technologies are transforming the way how people interact with our cultural past, proposing new and current ways of exploring, understanding and preserving the historical-architectural cultural heritage. The research is part of a segment that connects the history of the city of Matera with contemporary trends. The blend of existing architectural heritage, digitalisation and new and innovative digital tools, finds a primordial application in the present research, because of a shortage in the state of the art of validated research in the scientific field, in order to define an innovative smart prevention approach on the UNESCO heritage. A fundamental step is the creation of a semantic model, developed according to HBIM methodology, including the components of the historical architecture of the Sassi of Matera, designed from the complex phase of technological decomposition of the elements and subsequent digital reconstruction, in order to define a process that includes the modelling of the first elements of the architecture of the Sassi historicized in the research. The creation of a catalogue and thus a computerised digital library of components characterised by non-regular geometries is followed by the creation of a new manual that can become a reference point in the design phase, for interventions and good practices on the UNESCO heritage of the Sassi of Matera. The research aims to convey the concept that HBIM is considered, as defined by the UNI 11337:2017 standard, an essential support, control and management tool useful for understanding and interpreting the complexity of the existing architectural heritage.