Heritage Architecture As Living Organism: A Parametric Driven Modelling Approach

Since ancient times architects incorporate the spiral shape as a major design element in their poetry. An ancestral sing that is also recurrent in nature as it is observable in shells, in plant seed patterns and in the human hearing structures, just to mention few well-known examples. This symbol is also depicted in the precious cycles of frescoes hosted in the Templar church of San Bevignate of Perugia (Italy). The contribution proposes the conversion of this thirteenth-century architecture into a new museum inspired by the iconography of these decorative motifs. Indeed, in order to fit the quality of the mural paintings, the design of a contemporary addition is optimized though the use of generative algorithms, elaborated in the field of parametric modeling. A double spiral pedestrian walkway is so proposed to create a flexible expositive space strongly experiential and symbolic for the visitors.