32652 - Instrumental Architectural Survey

Course contents

The course will consist of lectures and practices.
The main topics will be:
- general problems and goals of a architectural survey;
- methodologies and tools: aims, uses and differences;
- survey planning: analysis of the case study, aims of the survey, choise of the most suitable methodology and tools to adopt;
- level of detail of the acquisition and representation;
- error theory, measures and instruments;
- use of the total station for the topographic survey for an architecture; basis of laser scanners survey technology;
- the use of images during surveys;

Readings/Bibliography

- CENTO G., Rilievo Architettonico, Libreria Tecnica Editrice Ing. V. Giorgio, Torino, 1944

- 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., Il Rilievo per il Restauro, Hoepli, Milano, 1990

- CLINI P., Il rilievo dell'architettura. Tecniche, metodi ed esperienze. Alinea editrice, Firenze, 2008

Teaching methods

The course will be carried out through classroom and field practices. Field practices are aimed at providing a direct experience of survey methods and tools and a specific documentation on the theme chosen. Group and  individual work will be aimed at the use of tools for the indirect survey (group work) and the direct survey (individual group) and at the representation - at the proper scales - of an architectural building or of one of its parts, with previous large analysis and sketched documentation  collected in a special personal exercise-book including study preliminary surveys, measurement notes and any graphic notes taken during inspections, measurements and practices.

Assessment methods

Practical tests for the use of instrumentation, carried out during the course and aimed at checking the understanding of the contents of lessons and theme. The documentation of the various phases of survey process shall be produced at given deadlines, so as to draw up at least the draft of 
the various tables during the course and with a view to the admittance to the final exam. The exam consists of: - an oral test and a practical test about the contents of the course; -a discussion and assessment of individual final works on exercise themes.

Teaching tools

Surveying equioments (Total station, laser leveling instrument, laser rangfinder), CAD laboratory, hardware and software equipments.

Office hours

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