This course aims to provide the following skills and abilities:
- Knowledge and understanding: students must know the theoretical references and basic methodologies related to three-dimensional modeling, information modeling and digital representation of architecture and the environment.
- Applied knowledge and understanding: students must be able to apply the knowledge acquired in the preparation of digital and/or information models according to the different contexts. They will be able to extract from the digital model the information useful for its representation in a two-dimensional context through the preparation of graphic boards.
- Judgment autonomy: at the end of the course, students must be able to critically use methods, processes and tools for digital representation, knowing how to choose the most appropriate tool for specific needs.
- Communication skills: students will have to demonstrate they are able to clearly present and apply the concepts and procedures acquired both orally and through the language of technical drawing.
- Learning skills: at the end of the course, students must have developed a personal graphic language, correlating different representation techniques to each other.

No particular technical prerequisite is required.

Bim Fundamentals course aims to provide students with fundamental knowledge for project representation in a three-dimensional digital environment with different modeling approaches.
The specific contents of the course are as follows:
- Introduction to 3D modeling: the first part of the lessons provides an overview of modeling technologies and types, along with a necessary historical introduction to understand the evolution of the practice, developed over the years based on the possible applications of the digital model, in close relation to the different fields of use.
- Previously acquired knowledge on tools for digital drawing in a two-dimensional environment, which form a necessary basis for modeling, will be revisited.
- Solid modeling, surface modeling, and Bim methodologies: the most popular software, operating approaches, and application areas.
- Preparation of files useful for Bim modeling with Cad software: generation of basic paths, import and export formats, main file management options, display types.
- Brief mention of modeling with Cad and Nurbs software: basic tools for solid and surface modeling and conversion into different export formats for exchanging two-dimensional models and paths with Bim software.
In detail, the following topics will be focused on the Bim environment:
- The regulatory and technical procedural framework relating to forms of modeling and information exchange in the building process.
- Management of system and uploadable families and creation of local families.
- Model generation for architectural elements: walls, floors, roofs and suspended ceilings, rooms functions, doors and windows, abacuses, topography, masses and curtain walls, stairs and railings.
- Generation of detailed construction elements.
- 3D to 2D: export of two-dimensional vector views from the model (plans, elevations and sections); export of third-dimensional allusive views from the 3D model (axonometries, perspectives).
- Display models by creating renderings: setting virtual cameras, applying materials, setting lights and final rendering resolution.
- View generation and graphic design: final panels layout.
- Management and exchange of information through Bim models.
- Closing lessons: examples and applications.

- H. Pottman, A. Asperl, M. Hofer, A. Kilian, Architectural Geometry, Bentley Institute Press, Exton 2007.
- A. Pavan, C. Miriachi, M. Giani, BIM: metodi e strumenti. Progettare, costruire e gestire nell'era digitale, Tecniche nuove, Milano 2017.
- C. Eastman, P. Teicholz, R. Saks, K. Liston, Il BIM. Guida completa al Building Information Modeling per committenti, architetti, ingegneri, gestori immobiliari e imprese, Hoepli, Milano 2016.
- G. Di Marco, Simplified complexity. Metodo per la modellazione NURBS avanzata con Rhinoceros, Le Penseur, Potenza 2017.

The series of lessons will begin with an introduction on 3D modeling: this first lesson aims to understand the possible applications of the digital model, thus highlighting the different types of eidomatic models in relation to their different fields of use.
Next, a brief review of digital drawing tools in a two-dimensional environment will be necessary, tools that should already be familiar to students. The fundamental differences between solid, surface, parametric, and Bim modeling will be defined; in this context, the most widely used software at the professional level will also be presented, highlighting their respective areas of application.
The specific study of the software will include an explanation of the graphical interface, import and export formats, main options, and display types. In a subsequent phase, the basic commands for modeling in various fields will be analyzed, as well as the advanced tools for modifying and converting a solid model into a surface-based and vice-verse one.
Once the overview of 3D modeling commands is completed, we will move on to tools for extracting two-dimensional vector views from the model (plans, elevations and sections) and for extracting third-dimensional allusive views such as axonometries and perspectives.
At the end of this first part, the procedures for obtaining renderings will be considered: setting up virtual cameras, applying materials, setting up lights and the final rendering resolution. The images, in vector or raster format, obtained from the digital model will be used to design the final table.
In detail, the Bim environment will primarily define the regulatory and technical procedural framework relating to the forms of modeling and information exchange in the construction process. Subsequently, the concept of modeling with related management of object libraries for the architectural project will be outlined.
The procedures for creating walls, attics, roofs and suspended ceilings, rooms, doors and windows, the generation of abacuses, topography, masses and curtain walls, as well as stairs and railings, will be illustrated.
As usual, two-dimensional contents will be extracted from the Bim model to be used in the final layout and printing phase. The final lessons will be focused on the management and exchange of information through Bim models as well as the presentation of some case studies and applications in different research fields.

The course is based on lectures focused on the main IT applications for the construction of Bim digital models. Workshops are planned with professionals in representation techniques that will illustrate specific case studies. Technical lessons will be accompanied by more cultural communications to describe the usefulness of 3D modeling in the development of a project and the enhancement of heritage.

During the course, additional specific bibliographic references will be provided for each lesson, and the teacher's consultations terms and methods will also be agreed weekly with students.

The exam involves the preparation of graphic elaborations related to the project developed during the Technical Architecture and Digital Modeling Laboratory, which must be printed and delivered on the day of the exam. Two interim deliveries are planned for the assessment of the progress of the project. The final evaluation will be based 1/3rd on the progress assessment, and 2/3rd on the outcome of the project. The test score is assigned by a grade expressed in thirtieths which will be weighted average with the grade of the other module of the Laboratory. To pass the exam (18/30) the student must present the graphic panels and demonstrate that he or she has acquired sufficient knowledge of the topics developed during the course. To achieve the maximum score (30/30 cum laude), the student must instead demonstrate an excellent mastery of digital drawing tools and correctly answer all questions with the subject-specific language property.