Restoration works at the Museo degli Innocenti in Florence: designing into the point cloud

The opportunities offered by the high exactness of digital morphometric survey are influencing the development of investigation processes, monitoring procedures and restoration works in the strategies and plans for the preservation, maintenance and rehabilitation of historical buildings and structures. Accuracy and precision of the 3D Laser Scanner seurvey dmonstrated to be a crucial support for the quality of the design activities in the interventions on historical compounds. The assessment of the technical solutions can been based on reliable data, particularly in those areas where a traditional survey is very difficult (or sometimes impossible) because of the inaccessibility of some spaces. The MUDI project – the restoration works for the new Museo degli Innocenti in Florence – benefitted by this opportunity: the project combined the design process with the high density information of morphometric models.