32648 - Architectural and Urban Survey (B)

Academic Year 2021/2022

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Cesena
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Architecture (cod. 0881)

Course contents

The aim of the Course is to provide knowledge on the theoretical fundaments of survey, on different approaches, methodologies, procedures and on their integrated use. The Course will highlight the different aims of the survey, from documentation, to analysis, to support of recovery and restoration interventions.

Particular attention will be paid on the analysis of case studies, of their context, of their morphological, metric and radiometric characteristics, of their complexity, scale of detail, of the different aims of communication and of the possibilities to represent the surveyed information.

Each survey and representation methodology and technique will be described in its peculiar characteristics and effective potentialities.

Readings/Bibliography

DOCCI M., MAESTRI D., Il manuale del rilevamento architettonico e urbano, Laterza, Bari, 2003.

DOCCI M., MAESTRI D., Storia del rilevamento architettonico e urbano, Laterza, Bari, 2003.

MARINO L., (a cura di), Dizionario di restauro archeologico, Alinea ed., Firenze, 2003.

MARINO L., (a cura di), Restauro architettonico, lezioni ed esercitazioni, Alinea ed., Firenze, 1996.

BENEDETTI B., GAIANI M., REMONDINO F. (a cura di), Modelli digitali 3D in archeologia: il caso di Pompei, Edizioni della Normale, Pisa, 2010.

GUIDI G., RUSSO M., BERALDIN J-A., Acquisizione 3D e modellazione poligonale, McGraw-Hill Education, 2010.

DE LUCA L., La fotomodellazione architettonica. Rilievo, modellazione, rappresentazione di edifici a partire da fotografie, Dario Flaccovio Editore, Palermo, 2011.

During the lessons, further references will be provided on specific topics.

Teaching methods

The Course will be organized in lectures and field practice with the purpose of experiencing concepts illustrated during lectures. During these practice, different techniques, technologies and instrument will be tested and used in order to practically compare their different peculiarities, potentialities and integrated use.

The survey practice will be conducted both through group and individual activities.

Assessment methods

The survey, post-processing of data and representation phases will be organized according to a schedule of activities and reviews of the work. These activities and their positive results are mandatory to the admittance to the final exam.

The final exam consists of an oral test and on the discussion and assessment of both the final work and on the ongoing reviews.

The Survey of Architecture Course (32647 - Integrated Course) is an integrated course that combines the Architectural and Urban Survey Course (32648, 6 credits, 72 hour lessons) and the Tools and Methods of Architectural Survey (32649, 2 credits, 24 hour lessons) one.

The final exam will be shared between the two Courses (32648-32649).

The exam of RILIEVO ARCHITETTONICO E URBANO consists in the verification of all modules/teaching programs that form the integrated course.

The exam will take place on a single date and will consist in the evaluation of the drawings and an oral interview.

In particular, the drawings will focus on the following macro topics covered in class:

  • direct survey method;
  • image-based survey methods;
  • range-based survey methods.


    Drawings will be evaluated in their geometric correctness and graphic quality.


    During the oral interview, students will be asked to illustrate the theoretical foundations illustrated during lessons and to present the final drawings produced during the exercises.



    The exam mark is unique and corresponds to the overall assessment of the teaching topics of the modules/courses of the integrated course.

    The graphic documents and the oral will be assessed on the basis of the following criteria to which the points in the list will be assigned respectively:
  1. geometric correctness and graphic quality of drawings; for a total of up to 24 points, divided as follows
  • direct survey method, up to a maximum of 8 points;
  • image-based survey methods, up to a maximum of 8 points;
  • range-based survey methods, up to a maximum of 8 points.


    2 - Verification of the oral exam, up to a maximum of 6 points.

Teaching tools

Students will use the instruments, equipment, software and hardware available in the laboratories.

Office hours

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