Giovanni ANZANI / Francesco ALGOSTINO / Elenonora CECCONI / Francesco TIOLI
(Dipartimento di Architettura, Università degli studi di Firenze, Italy)
Abstract:
In February 2014 the Architectural Modelling Laboratory at the “Dipartimento di Architettura” in Florence has started its public activities. As a part of the Didalabs (the Laboratory System of the Department) it has offered support, innovation and knowhow to all the students and scholars of the florentine Athenaeum. It has gathered a long tradition of surveying, modelling, architecture design and research for innovation to build a collaborative and well working approach to support research and learning. During its first year of activities many Cultural Heritage subjects has been digitalized, studied, brought to be complete digital models and then 3D printed into scaled physical models. This continuos and challenging work has created the bases to develop specific and consolidated methods, well working practices, and sometimes some rethinking about certain digital solutions. The parallel between research and teaching support has created the need to consolidate a fully digital approach to the cultural heritage documentation, with a very practical approach, always oriented to get the best result with the minimal effort out of the most recent and interesting digital techniques. In the poster presented here it will be described the solution adopted in some important works, the testing of specific balance between digital and real, the benchmark of different 3D digital printing systems according to their use in the field of cultural heritage. The results, suggestions, solved issues, will be described to bring an useful contribution to the discussion about the best practices in digital heritage procedures, with a wide range of case studies from the historical objects, to the statues, to the large architectural artifacts.
Keywords: 3D Laser Scanner, Florence, 3D Printing, Didalabs, 3D modeling