Historic Building Information Modeling: from historical database platform to fully suitable and multidisciplinary design instruments

The aim of the research intends to provide innovative solutions to the more and more hard challenge of organizing in a virtuous manner the information concerning the architecture patrimony: the realization of complex parametric models could guarantee a formal, architectural and relational coherence, inside a shared virtual system. The HBIM (Historical Building Information Modeling) represent virtual models for cultural assets, essential supports to archive, compare, manage and design heterogeneous data that constitute the building: its analysis give the possibility to interpret it in a sort of “asis” model, made by deductions coming from information derived by archivist, geometrical and topology data contained into the virtual model. The report will focus particularly on the case study of the V Pavillion made by Riccardo Morandi nearby the Torino Esposizioni exhibition building cluster: built using the prestressed technology on concrete lowered arcs, it passed very fast from being an iconic building of the excellent Italian engineering school of the postwar period, to a debatable and malfunctioning municipal garage. For this reason the virtual model could be helpful to collect on one side a fully shared information database capable to transfer all the historical path of the building, and on the other the efficient and multidisciplinary instruments supporting future design interventions on the next period.