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With this contribution we intend to continue a research started in a previous study on the construction of a narrative strategy to communicate the pictorial images of historical cities. Resuming the theoretical and cognitive process started previously, which directed the research towards the construction of a geocoded map of urban paintings and their use in augmented reality, we now intend to validate the proposed methodology on the pictorial image of Naples, chosen as a case study application, identifying weaknesses and strengths of the research process and its possible future directions.

This research work into Evolutionary Computing field aims at improving a dataset of algorithmic gen-erative definitions able to return an optimized ‘semi–ideal’ curve that best fits a generic reality–based profile, starting from some of its points. This paper shows GAs_Genetic Algorithms applications especially with regards to study, interpretation and definition of generic polycentric curves. Current VPL tools (Galapagos–Rhino, McNeel) allow to test Evolutionary Theories for problem solving and decision makingin architectural research field. According to a human driven approach, an operator defines GENOME, FUNCTION and FITNESS to drive the Evolutionary Solver towards optimized solutions. Some case studies from Historical/Existent Architectural Heritage are used to show how GAs can simplify the digitalization process and big data interpretation.

The research investigates the theme of the valorization of the huge, but widespread, archaeological heritage of the Phlegraean Fields which, already weakened in its conservation and fruition by the bradyseismic phenomena of the area, is made even more fragile by the absence of narrative strategies, making even local communities unable to perceive its value. The study proposes a systematization of the knowledge of the Phlegraean Fields Park, through surveys and 3D models, integrated by the use of different digital technologies, which together promote effective forms of communication between users and heritage. Each site becomes the node of a network of thematic routes, traced starting from the major attractions of the area and aimed at defining a hybrid landscape, made of in site visits and immersive digital experiences. The goal is to generate a new model of inclusive museum, configuring cultural relationships between physically distant places, between lost spaces and real ruins

Resuming the cognitive process started in a previous study of integrated survey and interpretation of the remains of the Terme del Foro of Cumae in the Parco Archeologico dei Campi Flegrei, with this contribution, we intend to set up, a methodology to deepen the investigation already carried out on the current consistencies of the thermal system that, through the preparation of a suitable neural network managed by AI processes and structured for the systematic analysis of differences, is able to formulate reconstructive hypotheses with scientific authority. By integrating the possibilities of traditional methods of investigation on architectural and archaeological heritage, it will be possible not only to highlight what can be directly observed in situ, but also to enhance traces that are not immediately decodifiable and even latent, automatically emerging as the results of comparative investigations on large amounts of data whose logical structure will be clearly traceable along artificial neural ‘meshes’ similar to human cognitive processes.

Competitions for ideas for architecture have always been sources of stimulus and research, paving the way for innovative projects that have also guaranteed an economic flow and a naturally conse- quent social response. The municipality of Rome, years ago, was the architect of a campaign of this type: the Cento Piazze project included, for the first time, a number of competitions and projects that had never been ad- dressed by a national and international administration. Our intervention aims to reflect on how and to what extent the Public Administration can now benefit from new technologies and digital tools for the analysis and survey of architecture and public space. These innovations, in fact, now make it possible to provide design with a valid help in the preparation of competitions that increasingly concern urban regeneration at an international level.

This paper investigates the ephemeral architecture of the eighteenth century in Naples through the literary and iconographic sources found in the volume Idee per le pubbliche feste nel ritorno in Napoli de’nostri Augusti Sovrani dalla Germania […] by Gaetano Barba (1971). The goal is an unprecedented representation, modeling and fruition project, accompanied by a graphic visualization of the places to better understand the architectural and urban space in the absence of allusive images of three–dimensionality. Subsequently, the visual construction of the contexts on an urban and architectural scale made it possible to disseminate the compositional elements of the celebrations and the internal perceptions to a non–specialist public. Finally, an Augmented–Reality application prototype.

Augmenting Angri is a project aiming at preserving the memory of about twenty murals located in the historical centre of the small city of Angri (SA) using ICT and in particular Augmented reality. The project has been carried on in 2020 with the students attending the integrated course of Visual Expression (professors A. Pagliano and P. Vitolo) in the Master’s Degree Course in Design for the Built Environment. Augmenting Angri consists of an innovative valorisation path in Augmented reality which expand the narrative message of the old murales thanks to the digital contents (audio, video, animations and 3D models), sometime replacing them back, in case of totally disappeared murales.