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Investigating Baroque Creativity of Minor Examples in Southern Sicily: From Digital Survey to Geometric Interpretation
Mariateresa Galizia (Università degli Studi di Catania, Italy), Cettina Santagati (Università degli Studi di Catania, Italy), and Nuccio Delfo Giuffrida (Università degli Studi di Catania, Italy)
Copyright: © 2016
|Pages: 28
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0029-2.ch009
Abstract
This study takes advantage of digital surveying to investigate in reverse the complexity and creativity of architectural composition in religious Baroque buildings while studying a so-called minor architecture, the church of Santa Maria dell'Odigitria in Acireale (CT), whose interior is modeled with geometric rigor, through a design process that is based on the use of simple geometric figures but articulated differently, such as to structure a complex structural and proportional order. The three-dimensional space of a computer instead becomes the core of the unveiling process, the place where the scholar has the opportunity to interact and communicate with millions of points gained, to reason on the geometric and spatial qualities of the object; where the geometric intuition about the genesis of the shape can be verified in real time through a simple query / overlap, in which one can move from measurement to representation, from the spatiality of the real to its discretization and viceversa.