INTEGRATED SURVEY FOR ARCHITECTURAL RESTORATION: A METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH IN THE CASE STUDY OF CODIPONTE (MS)

A preliminary survey campaign is essential in projects of restoration, urban renewal, rebuilding or promotion of architectural heritage. Today several survey techniques allow full 3D object restitution and modelling that provides a richer description than 2D representations. A single technique or a combination of several ones might be employed. Especially when documentation at different scales and with different levels of detail are foreseen, the latter will likely be necessary. The paper describes an architectural survey in Italy: the two most relevant remains in Codiponte (MS), damaged by the earthquake in 2013, in the context of a project of restoration and conservation. In this site, a 3D survey was necessary to represent effectively the objects. An integrated survey campaign was performed, which consists of a GPS network as support for georeferencing, an aerial survey and a field survey made by laser scanner and close range photogrammetry. The case study, thanks to its peculiarity, can be taken as exemplar to wonder if the integration of different surveying techniques is today still mandatory or, considering the technical advances of each technology, it is in fact just optional.