BIM-based Architectural Heritage Management: A Case Study of Palladio’s Palazzo Barbaran da Porto

Building Information modeling (BIM) demonstrated great efficiency in architectural design, while the management of architectural heritage has barely benefited from this technological renovation. A series of issues including the standard, platform and technique still need to be discussed. In this article, we first review briefly these challenges. Then we illustrate a first attempt of workflow to manage architectural heritage using BIM developed from the Palazzo Barbaran da Porto case study, one of the most important and beautiful Andrea Palladio’s architecture. Andrea Palladio’s treaty, considered as the knowledge system of classical architecture, serves as the semantic foundation of the BIM model. In the end, relevant techniques based on this paper will be summarized and future perspectives are also addressed. We aim to employ BIM as a centralized dataset supporting comprehensive data input for life-cycle management and various analytical purposes and potential interoperability.