3D City modelling toward conservation and management. The digital documentation of Museu do Ipiranga - USP, San Paulo, Brazil

The present paper illustrates the survey and documentation activities for the 3D city modelling and visualization undertaken since 2016 on complex monumental buildings of the city of São Paulo in Brazil by the DIAPReM research centre and the TekneHub Laboratory of the University of Ferrara in collaboration with FAU-USP Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo of Universidade de São San Paolo and funded by the Fundação de Apoio à Universidade de São Paulo- FUSP for the definition of interdisciplinary collaboration protocols and the development of integrated digital databases of Brazilian cultural heritage. Starting from a wider joint international research collaboration dated more than five years ago, the project is aimed at the definition of interdisciplinary protocols for the digital documentation of the built heritage in order to support the knowledge, restoration, maintenance, management and enhancement of Museu do Ipiranga - USP and it involves both academic and research competencies, as well as professional and technical skills. The definition of the first integrated digital database of the Museu do Ipiranga took into account the documentation needs of complex architecture for restoration and the project for new accessibility and the extension of the Museum itself and a wider digitization project for the urban planning and a new Smart Cultural Heritage accessibility as well.