Virtual Reconstruction, Museography, and VR/AR Communication in Design for Heritage

This paper presents the outcomes of a multidisciplinary teaching, dedicated to thirdyear students of the bachelor program in Design and Visual Communication. The activity carried out as a 300-h internship, focuses on the Sala dei Filosofi, a hall in Villa Adriana in Tivoli connected to the Teatro Marittimo and the Pecile. During the visit to the site, a photogrammetric survey of the hall using a spherical camera was carried out. It aimed at the restitution of the existing vestiges underlying the reconstructive hypotheses. The latter, undertaken since the survey, were fueled by the modeling of architectural orders and a series of standardized elements, realized through the study of Andrea Palladio’s treatise. The methodology employed is historically inherited from the pedagogical tradition of the pensionnaires of the Grand Prix de Rome. The interaction between the disciplines has been activated since the first phase of analysis and interpretation, thanks to the experimentation of different reconstructive hypotheses of the architectural elements, and the verification of the peculiarities of the digital models aimed at the design of experiences in virtual and augmented reality.