Digital integrated models for the restoration and monitoring of the cultural heritage: the 3D Architectural Information System of the Church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Penne (Pescara, Italy)

The SIArch-Univaq is an Information System dedicated to the Architecture. It comes from a research made in the University of L'Aquila, Architecture and Urban Planning Department by the working group on the Architectural Survey and Graphic Representation. It was financed by the Italian Ministry of University under the PRIN 2006 measure. At present the SIArch-Univaq project is completed and tested on some different buildings classified as Historical Heritage, the software allows, at each building scale, to make a tri-dimensional model navigation asking for and consulting the large amount of informations stored in the data-base and, by mean of appropriate print layouts, having a very good support for the restoration or rehabilitation projects.