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For the study of these geometric and analytical models, drawings not only help make clear the features
through descriptive geometry but also allow for modeling their forms, as such elucidating construction issues
during this process as well as producing prototypes that are useful for the documentation and assessment of
architectural patrimony.
The purpose of modeling in the history of research has always been one of turning a vision conceived
virtually into a “reality” by taking into consideration mathematical prototypes in order to establish a scientific
basis to explain nature’s most complex physical and mechanical phenomena. Engineering, understood in all
of its most complex forms of research and experimentation, requires the use of mathematical and mechanical
formulas, as well as the application of complex yet universal languages that are related to the science of design.
This mandatory communication need today finds new possibilities of expression within the digital sphere, in
which the language of programming reformulates the structural principles of computational models and for
composition in general.
The recurring issue of “documentation” is understood to be the need to take ownership of historical-cul-
tural patrimony, in this specific case that of architecture, and therefore of cultural identity and culture itself. It
has therefore demonstrated how these theoretical considerations and more in-depth analysis of tangible and
Laser scanner point
clouds of the Bulwark
of the Invincible.
© Sandro Parrinello
View of the point
cloud of the Bulwark
located near the
Hermitage of San
Antón. Because
the citizens do not
perceive it as a
monument, the site
is in critical condition:
on the upper section,
it is covered with
weeds, and the outline
is clearly visible of
a building that was
constructed using the
bulwark as its base
and later collapsed.
© Sandro Parrinello
THE WALLS OF SANTO DOMINGO AND DOCUMENTATION OF THE CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS BY THE ANTONELLI FAMILY