Un approccio collaborativo di tipo BIM per colmare distanze fisiche, sociali e culturali / A BIM Collaborative Approach to Overcome Physical, Social and Cultural Distances

The paper presents a didactic experience firstly addressed at the students of the Computer Graphics course of the Building Engineering-Architecture Degree Programme at the University of Salerno, concerning the representation of integrated data with a BIM approach. Distance learning has become mandatory given the actual sanitary emergency and, in this case, it became a mean to test the possibility of an active international and intercollegiate collaboration between ‘South of Italy - South America - South Africa’, by summoning both teachers and students up to deal with the challenge of group work while still self-isolating.The selected case study is the South-African Coromandel House, by Marco Zanuso – regarded as one of the founding fathers of Italian design – with the aim of developing repository type of models.The proposed application method: started from a cooperative modelling phase followed by a rendering phase carried out by employing user-friendly tools.The final graphics, together with the pre-existing documentation, became part of an informative database linked to the 3D model, using an OpenBIM approach for further dissemination and in order to pro- mote a continuous cultural and educational exchange.