From point cloud data to HBIM for public performance spaces knowledge, management and storytelling: Palazzo Olivieri in Pesaro

The very latest lines of European research in the field of Cultural Heritage are mainly focusing on disruptive global transitions through valueand future-oriented strategies in a green and digital scenario. This approach stems from the concept of Heritage as a unique but nonrenewable resource, featuring multilayer cultural contents (tangible and intangible), and evolving in close correlation with the constantly changing components in the territory. Digitisation is increasingly confirming itself as an enabling factor for many practices involving cultural heritage. With specific regard to the built heritage, digital technologies provide functions that can catalyse and optimally support architecture knowledge and storytelling, which in turn enhance new levels of interaction, and can improve the active conservation and integrated management of heritage asset. Starting from this assumptions, Palazzo Olivieri-Machirelli in Pesaro (Italy) was studied for challenging trials. Nowadays, the historical building is used as a music conservatory thanks to the testamentary legacy of the Italian composer Gioachino Rossini and the homonymous Foundation, and incorporates the Auditorium Pedrotti, which is the focus of this research. Thus, this architecture was selected as a testing case for inventive and immersive experiences as well as for long-term management solutions and systems, which exploit the paradigm of Heritage – or Historic – Building Information Modelling (HIBIM) and the robust technology of Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR, VR), taking advantage of solid base in the survey phase, which developed an high-detailed 3D numerical model.