- ReUso 2026 - New heritage and future strategies. Perspectives on conservation and promotion
- A cura di Alessandro Scarnato, Marisa García Vergara, Ángeles Layuno Rosas
Data-driven geometry for heritage interpretation: a reversible methodology for reactivating a religious ruin between landscape, community and spiritual experience
- Angela Cicala
- Mara Capone
- © 2026 Author(s) |
- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-1113-0.63
This paper proposes a data-driven methodology for interpreting and reactivating abandoned religious heritage, using the Church of Santa Maria Assunta in Settefonti as a case study. The research moves beyond reuse as permanent functional conversion, exploring temporary and reversible installations able to engage the site without altering its material fabric. The method is based on a combined reading of landscape and ruin: the path becomes a space of movement and spiritual plurality, while the ruin acts as a repository of memory. Through two custom-built data-driven algorithmic systems S.A.C.R.A. and Ruin A.R.T., religious, temporal, solar and historical data are translated into perceptual geometries, defining a strategy of heritage interpretation grounded in light, absence and relation.
- Keywords:
- Adaptive reuse,
- Data-driven geometry,
- Heritage interpretation,
- Temporary installations,
- Reverse anamorphosis,
University of Naples Federico II, Italy - ORCID: 0009-0002-5442-6739
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Informazioni sul capitolo
Titolo del capitolo
Data-driven geometry for heritage interpretation: a reversible methodology for reactivating a religious ruin between landscape, community and spiritual experience
Autori
Angela Cicala, Mara Capone
Lingua
Inglese
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-1113-0.63
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
ReUso 2026 - New heritage and future strategies. Perspectives on conservation and promotion
Sottotitolo del libro
14th International Congress Barcelona-Girona, 4-7 November
Curatori
Alessandro Scarnato, Marisa García Vergara, Ángeles Layuno Rosas
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Firenze University Press
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10.36253/979-12-215-1113-0
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