Analysis and representation of standardization processes in historic buildings by HBIAM

Knowing in its complexity an historical architecture means organizing heterogeneous data often not compatible within dedicated digital platforms. It is possible to hypothesize that some difficulties in the management of interoperability between professional figures and digital platforms can be mitigated through the generation of a three-dimensional model constructed with a common language, the result of rigorous geometric relationships between quantizable parameters. A digital model constructed in this way is at the same time a representation of architecture and a design control tool. The objective pursued is to experiment the application of generative modeling by testing its effectiveness in the study of historical architectures for which it is recognized that they belong to a stylistic, geometric and proportional matrix. The presented study examines two case studies representative of two modalities of approach to the associative modeling for historical architecture. The first is mainly archaeological in nature and refers to the era of Roman constructions, with particular reference to the bridges’ stereotomy and to the standardization methods for the development of their construction sites; the second is representative of the recovery in the Renaissance of these constructive traditions and of the importance of the logical design model, based on the elaboration of serial standard elements, which develops with the publication of the treaties.