Search results for " Geometric analysis"

The tree of life in the southern porch of the cathedral of Palermo: survey and geometric analysis

2016

This study focuses one of the most puzzling works of art made in Palermo at the end of the medieval age: the tree of life, a rich geometrical decoration with animal and human figures in the southern porch of the Cathedral of Palermo. Topographic and SfM photogrammetric methods produced a detailed orthophoto of the porch. Images collected during restoration have been rectified and superimposed to the orthophoto. The geometrical analysis of the decorative patterns reveals a complex design and meaningful links between the decoration and the general architectural layout of the porch.

U.I.R.D.A. – Unbuilt Italian Rationalism Digital Archive

2018

For twenty years, the architecture of Italian rationalism through the digital modelling has been investigated. Very often, the production of a model and the consequent representation of tridimensional views, in many case studies, as outcome of the research on architecture have been considered. Actually, the digital model, intended as a critical tool, has to be conceived as a ‘starting point' for graphic analysis of architecture and not as the outcome. Indeed, it is associated to other graphics, sometimes not ‘deducted' from the model, useful for the understanding/translation of architecture. The construction of the model is not the construction of a simple image, operation, which is often c…

Dal rilievo alla ricostruzione del progetto: la torre Pisana nel Palazzo Reale di Palermo

2017

The paper focuses the survey and representation of the Pisana Tower in the Royal Palace of Palermo. The tower, which has recently been inserted in the UNESCO World Heritage List, was built in the XII century under the patronage of Norman kings. Along the centuries, the tower has undergone several transformations, to fit ever-changing uses. The coexistence of such heterogeneous elements, combined with the fragmentation of the passages connecting the levels of the tower, conceal the original unity and the typology of this historical building. Researches focusing the study of monuments deeply transformed along their history, even when based on the cooperation of multidisciplinary scholarships,…

Semianalyticity of isoperimetric profiles

2009

It is shown that, in dimensions $<8$, isoperimetric profiles of compact real analytic Riemannian manifolds are semi-analytic.

Dal disegno alla misura. Ricostruzione del fronte di palazzo Aiutamicristo a Palermo

2020

I laser scanner e la fotogrammetria SfM hanno scardinato il legame tradizionale fra misura e disegno, fissato negli eidotipi che spesso prefiguravano i disegni di restituzione. Il contributo che segue intende dimostrare, attraverso una esemplificazione su un caso studio, che le tecnologie digitali e il lavoro di indagine su repliche del reale, esaltano, attraverso nuovi modi di interazione fra disegno e misura, la possibilità di indagare l’architettura costruita per decodificarne lo schema, il progetto. Il caso studio prescelto è il fronte principale di palazzo Aiutamicristo, costruito a Palermo a partire dal 1490 su progetto di Matteo Carnilivari. Il prospetto di palazzo Aiutamicristo avrà…

The isoperimetric profile of a smooth Riemannian manifold for small volumes.

2009