THE APPROACH TO BIM - BUILDING INFORMATION MODELLING AS EXCELLENT INSTRUMENT FOR THE DEFINITION OF DESIGN STRATEGIES AND FOR KNOWLEDGE, SIMULATION AND MANAGEMENT OF THE BUILDINGS AND ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE

As regards architectural heritages, especially in historic cities, the level of knowledge becomes directly proportional to the possibility of management. The qualitatively larger and better capacity for acquisition of an in-depth cognitive structure, the easier and more efficient the possibility of better management of the architectural and historical asset. The affirmation, even in the recent past, of new methodologies and cognitive and elaborative technologies, involving the natural and artificial environment has also involved areas typical of architecture by evolving traditional systems and methods of representation. When applied to the conservation, valorisation and management of the architectural heritage, especially in historic cities, the simultaneous evolution of these knowledge and technologies simulation helped evolve the discipline of representation towards a broader interdisciplinary direction, establishing a relational system of methods and leading and information that precede and complete the knowledge-analysis-design process