Projet HEPHAESTUS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Staff Exchanges
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

HEPHAESTUS develops digital Information Models and reliable 3D Databases for Cultural Heritage Routes (CHRs) across European border territories, defining collaborative inter-sectoral protocols to enhance the architectural cultural heritage and improve sustainable planning and management processes. It bears on the physical materiality and critical role of fortifications and military architecture – as building complexes that usually embody the emblem of historical geopolitical and societal limits – to turn them into digital systems that unify administrative models across European borders. Military architecture’s paradigms transcend regional characterisations and are based on models that coexist in different countries, lending themselves to generating management systems that overcome borders. HEPHAESTUS brings together historians, surveyors, 3D modelling experts, software developers, and urban planners in a partnership of universities, research centres, small and medium-sized enterprises, and cultural institutes from Italy, Germany, Poland, and Croatia. The specific and complementary expertise of partners enables the structuring of a multiphase methodology that includes: Digital data acquisition, 3D semantic modelling, models and databases’ association, Digital Twins’ development, open data platforms’ development, and definition of standardised multiscale databases. This project structures a novel way to investigate fortification CHRs according to a scientific model, promoting the digital transition and, on a European level, the development of a programmatic “Charta” of Documentation-for-Intervention, which can be applied on a broader scale. Through Digital Twins based on informative systems, HEPHAESTUS codifies a novel and cutting-edge representative language for the widespread heritage of CHRs. Moreover, it creates potential market opportunities for non-academic participants, thus bringing significant benefits also for European societies/cultures.

Mots clés : digital survey, digital databases, semantic databases, collaborative bim management, architectural digital twin, architectural heritage management, military architecture, cultural heritage routes

Participants :
- Institute of Art History (Croatie) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 41400.0 €
- Bochum University of Applied Sciences (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 73600.0 €
- Instytut kultury miejskiej (Pologne) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 23000.0 €
- Metaheritage srl (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 36800.0 €
- Fundacja to get there (Pologne) — Partner, beneficiary, Autres, subvention : 36800.0 €
- École polytechnique de Gdańsk (Pologne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 96600.0 €
- Université de Florence (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 119600.0 €
- Université de Pavie (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 96600.0 €
- Tvrdjava kulture sibenik (Croatie) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 18400.0 €