BIM AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT FOR BUILDING HERITAGE

Knowledge representation and management play a key role in built heritage field, deeply influencing decisions and actions of the different specialists involved in investigation, intervention, conservation and fruition processes. An accurate and complete representation and comprehension of architectural heritage artefact require a large amount of semantics related to its intangible aspects such as social and historical context. On these bases, the research presented in this paper investigates the potential impact of Building Information Modelling introduction in built heritage field in order to enhance knowledge management and, as a consequence, collaboration among specialists. To include in the artefact representation both tangible and intangible knowledge, the model has been conceived as the integration of a BIM environment with a knowledge base developed by means of ontologies. To test its features and capabilities, the model has been applied to the archaeological investigation of the Castor and Pollux temple at Cori, Italy. Temple of Castor and Pollux in Cori–remains of the original structure of the temple (first century BCE, Cory, Italy): two Corinthian columns, ten meters high, decorated by twenty grooves which support an architrave (left); central cella and side wings (right) (Simeone et al., 2013). 1