Cognitive Systems for the Monumental and Architectural Heritage. The Aragonese Castle of Taranto

The preservation of the monumental and historical heritage is connected to the building of a knowledge system that allows to collect, compare, update and share survey data and all the available documentation. The instruments of computational nature actually used, such as the Building Information Models, based on relational databases, enable a virtual reconstruction of buildings and contain information which complete the graphic representation. The predictiveness of a BIM model applied to new buildings, turns into documentation and a rebuilding of the existing assets of the Heritage BIM, also allowing the gathering and the collation of information about culture and history. The HBIM approach was applied to the Aragonese Castle of Taranto (South of Italy), so as to build an architectural information system based on a BIM model, which is interactive and navigable through web-based platforms and connects the digital alphanumeric objects to documents of various formats.