Sant’Aniceto Castle from the Survey to the Enhancement

Abstract

The Scan to BIM method applied to the field of cultural heritage, today represents an opportunity for public administrations in order to enhance and disseminate the cultural heritage present in their territories, building models able to connect different databases and, consequently, allow a multidisciplinary approach in such a way as to guarantee the transition and the transformation from an unsustainable production system from the point of view of the use of resources, to a model that instead has its own strength in sustainability, environmental, social and economic, especially in existing buildings. The proposed method was applied to the case study of the Castle of Sant’Aniceto (often referred to as S. Niceto) located in Motta San Giovanni (RC). To obtain the 3D model of the structure under examination, it was necessary to carry out, as a first step, an investigation with drone photogrammetry that allowed the construction of a dense cloud of points and high-resolution orthophotos useful for the study of the architectural and historical analysis of the elements present within the rocky site. Subsequently, the individual objects identified using Edificius were modeled allowing to reconstruct the objects in a virtual environment that can be fully visited through virtual reality applications.