New generations of Digital Databases for the development of Architectural Urban Risk Menagment

Italian architectural scene is center of research and intervention campaigns for its preservation, due to its location in a territory of natural hazards which since ancient times have denoted the issue of transmission. Investigations performed a great variety of studies, through multidisciplinary approaches within centuries in analysis and monitoring, from environmental safety to damage and structural mechanisms. In time an archive of knowledge was structured, with a fragmentation and difficulty of consultation due to the lack of a union instrument of architectural morphology to scientific content. The paper shows how Pavia, historical and university city, is starting a research that combines urban morphology to heritage preservation through the development of a 3D database, as a valid system of representation and container of heterogeneous data for archiving. The historical center of the city, between conservation and contemporary evolution, can experiment an N-dimensional database of information, where the drawing is basic tool to represent complexity of systems and the model, result of laser and photogrammetric survey, becomes a graphic interface to transform buildings in informative containers for seismic, architectural and environmental monitoring actions. 3D modeling can generate new frontiers of interaction between city and users, and creates in Pavia the bases to design a smart city, building the groundwork for new protocols of conservation and planning.