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Recognizing the Design Patterns of Complex Vaults: Drawing, Survey and Modeling. Experiments on Palazzo Mazzonis’ Atrium in Turin

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This paper shows the results of research advances on complex vaulted systems produced by the integration of laser scanner survey techniques and three-dimensional modeling for the geometric interpretation of built architecture to recognizing the geometric matrices of the design conception. The integration between TLS techniques and digital modeling methods led to the definition of new workflows, aimed at optimizing the use of data and at refining the quality of the geometrical interpretation. The process incorporates the traditional activities of freehand drawing of eydotipes, aimed at a deep understanding of the peculiar characteristics of the artifact. In particular, from these procedures new opportunities for the research arise to better understand the relationships between survey data, geometric matrices and compositional rules.

The case study presented here, the atrium of Palazzo Mazzonis in Turin was chosen among a small number of atria that present characteristics of originality and uniqueness in a panorama of realizations strongly characterized by compliance with well-established compositional schemes.

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The atrium of Palazzo Mazzonis is the main entrance to the Museo d’Arte Orientale (MAO) in Turin. The research was carried out within the framework of an agreement between the Museo d’Arte Orientale and the Politecnico di Torino, aimed to surveying, drawing and digital modeling in order to communicate the architectural features of Palazzo Mazzonis. We would like to thank Dr. Marco Guglielminotti Trivel, Director of the Museum, and Mrs. Patrizia Bosio, from Technical and Security Office, for having favored the current research.

This paper is the result of the research on complex vaulted systems carried out by the research group. The authors wrote together paragraphs 1 and 8, M. C. López González wrote paragraph 5, R. Spallone paragraph 7, M. Vitali paragraph 2, G. Bertola, paragraph 4, F. Natta paragraph 6, F. Ronco paragraph 3.

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  1. Department of Architecture and Design, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy

    R. Spallone, M. Vitali, G. Bertola, F. Natta & F. Ronco

  2. Department of Graphic Expression in Architecture, School of Building Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de València, València, Spain

    M. C. López González

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Spallone, R., López González, M.C., Vitali, M., Bertola, G., Natta, F., Ronco, F. (2021). Recognizing the Design Patterns of Complex Vaults: Drawing, Survey and Modeling. Experiments on Palazzo Mazzonis’ Atrium in Turin. In: Ioannides, M., Fink, E., Cantoni, L., Champion, E. (eds) Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection. EuroMed 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12642. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73043-7_1

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