HBIM for restoration projects: case‐study on San Cipriano Church in Castelvecchio Calvisio, Province of L’Aquila, Italy

Although there have been significant developments in research into assigning semantic content to 3D models for the purposes of documentation, conservation and architectural and archaeological heritage management, the application of 3D GIS to individual artifacts has remained rare. Where 3D GIS has been used in this context, it has not been done in a consistent or standardised way. As an alternative to the elaborate construction of 3D GIS, the international academic community has embarked on a process of investigating how HBIM (Historical BIM) might be used in the fields of historical architecture and archaeology. In this paper, we report on experiments carried out at the San Cipriano Church in Castelvecchio Calvisio (AQ) on the basis of the integrated survey of the church, before turning to a discussion of the planning of restoration work in a BIM environment.