DATABASES AND COMPLEXITY. REMOTE USE OF THE DATA IN THE VIRTUAL SPACE OF RELIABLE 3D MODELS

• Main Authors: Sandro Parrinello, Francesca Picchio
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering 2017-06-01
• Series: Architecture and Engineering
• Subjects: Digital database; digital survey; 3D models; virtual reality; interactive space; fruition
• Online Access: http://aej.spbgasu.ru/index.php/AE/article/view/102/67

With the advent of digital technology, communication has undergone radical transformation processes. The large amount of information that surrounds us with sociological, cultural and economic aspects, have changed the relationship between the perceiver and the context. The perceiver takes part of space, surrounding it, finding new ways to understand it and new ar-chive systems of the information he may acquire. Through digital survey and the use of skilled software, the elements and the relationships of the contemporaneity become networked and accessible to the public. The database in which all the data acquired is collected, permits an extraction of useful information for the orientation in space. This possibility allows the under-standing of the relationship between elements and an ever-growing conscious approach to the project. Through digitization, the virtual environment can be preserved. This paper describes an innovative methodology that links the complexity of the databases (for the management of ur-ban and architectural systems) with representation systems and three-dimensional space archives. Some experimental researches conducted explain ways in which one can create virtual databases. These instruments can become narrative path systems where the user can find and interface with the elements of space, in a more conscious, critical and structured approach.