SMALL TOWNS AND DIGITAL SURVEY: VIRTUALIZING CASTELVECCHIO CALVISIO, ABRUZZO, ITALY

In the present, correct use of the available tools for the digital survey may allow fast and reliable documentation of architecture and urban settlement. The contribution to knowledge and to the quality of any intervention coming from the creation of a "digital twin" of the real is evident and when it is applied without appropriate accuracy is always a matter of missing skills and appropriate learning from the group involved in the intervention. For this reason, teaching and implementing digital surveys at any scale when teaching about architecture is an important step: it allows to get better control over any subject and it gives a clear and accurate documentation of the place before any following transformation. The case study of "Castelvecchio Calvisio” is developed in the logic of teaching and experimenting a practical, efficient, and useful approach to the digital survey. It was operated in two workshops/summer schools in 2020 and 2021, with the will to share with the students all the methodologies and a skilful method of survey. The present article is a detailed report of the operations brought on during the first step, taken in July 2020.