An integrated system for documentation, analysis and management of the architectural heritage: the general and the parts of the Generalife Palace

The project here presented is the result of the collaboration established between the Laboratory DAda Lab (Drawing and Architecture DocumentAction Laboratory) of the University of Pavia and the Laboratory SMlab (Survey and Modeling Lab of Architectural Heritage) of the University of Granada, together with the invaluable support received from the Board of the Alhambra and the Generalife. Several professors and researchers have participated in this multidisciplinary project that, using the Generalife as a test, proposed a theoretical and practical methodology about the digital architectural survey, which has allowed to compare the different three-dimensional data formats in terms of their capacity to be interpreted in the process of conservation and management of architectural heritage. The experiences obtained in the different survey processes were completed with a rigorous historical analysis of the formal and constructive evolution of the Generalife, from which it has been possible to carry out the subsequent critical assessment.