THE CONTRIBUTION OF DIAGNOSTICS IN ARCHITECTURAL SURVEY; CASE STUDY OF COMBINED THERMOGRAPHY APPLICATION

If up to fairly recent time, the relational system between perception, processing and representation during representation processes was perfected by concluding through natural “intuitus” (physical environment) and human intelligence (perception and processing capacity), the assumption of a dominant role, in terms of methodology and practice, of a third "virtual intelligence", deriving from contemporary developments in technologies such as electronics, information technology and telematics, has transformed the previous method of approach to the environment, natural or built, and to the project. Applied to the study and investigation of architectural heritage, the contemporary evolution of these technologies of knowledge and simulation, evolve the discipline of representation in the direction of the broader interdisciplinary interdisciplinary perspective, establishing a relational system of methods and information that precede and complement the process of knowledge. The use of computer systems in the context of visual representation, while being purely a technical/operational aspect that does not conceptually introduce new modus or forms of representation, assumes an even epochal significance by creating a clear separation between pre-and post information. Useful technologies for the material/formal control intervene in the field of diagnostics and in the behavior of materials by developing measurement, protection and monitoring systems of the performance characteristics.