HBIM Gaming Models for Multiscalar Knowledge: The Ferraria Cistercian Abbey

To contribute to the knowledge of historical contexts that have radically changed over the centuries, information and communication techniques and technologies today can help reveal their distinctive features. In particular, by exploiting the potential offered by parametric-informative BIM modelling, the contribution illustrates the research conducted on the complex of S. Maria della Ferraria at Vairano Patenora in the province of Caserta (Italy), the first Cistercian Abbey in the Kingdom of Naples, visible in its original configurations only through the survey of metric and historiographical data and the typological-proportional analysis of the remaining parts. In fact, starting from an integrated digital survey project, the contribution highlights the potential offered by the digital domain for the analysis and reconstruction of the parametric model in the evolutionary phases of the building, in a virtual asset that looks at the correlation of geometric and informative data to meet the demand for cultural transmission, between real and virtual, of one of the major centres of religious and cultural life of the late medieval period.