Cultural heritage design: theories and methods for the project complexity management

Abstract

The contribution focuses on the design project in particular in relation to the existing Cultural Heritage. The principle aim is the investigation and the analysis of a complex as an indispensable relationship between the phase of building knowledge and that of intervention. Methodologically this question will be addressed firstly through a historical excursus through the main restoration theories with the aim of understanding how this aspect has always been perceived as a fundamental element for the success of the project; then it will be addressed towards the study and investigation of some more recent methodological solutions. Outcome, still open to development and progress scenarios, is the evaluation of how the most recent technologies and information systems can be able, if wisely used, to became tools able to assist the designer in the synthetic control of the management of the building process.