B.I.M. and cultural heritage: multi-scalar and multi-dimensional analysis and representation of an historical settlement. The case study of Montemagno, a New Village in Piedmont

Among its many and varied potential, B.I.M. includes those of diachronic and multi-scalar management of digital models. These potentialities have been tested in an innovative way on the case study of a medieval settlement of particular morphology, for its comb-shaped layout interspersed by narrow alleys, placed on a system of three ridges, in Asti territory. This interdisciplinary research, has involved analyses at the urban, micro-urban and architectural levels. The methodology uses tools whose applications to historical buildings is currently object of study by scholars in the field of H.B.I.M . Compared to existing studies, however, the present approach uses some functionality for the control of the time dimension not yet properly explored, interlacing with the archaeology of the elevations and the stratigraphic Harris Diagram (Matrix), in order to facilitate the analysis.