V.A.I. Reality. A Holistic Approach for Industrial Heritage Enhancement

The post–industrial heritage, characterized by heterogeneous, tangible and intangible factors, requires digital tools and a holistic approach to undertake the most appropriate enhancement process. Current virtual realities (Vr, Ar, Ir) allow the modeling of physical environments and the management and virtualization of a large and varied amount of data, thus helping to better understand the complexity of the real phenomenon. The paper proposes a method, named D.V.M.R. (acronym for Design, Virtualization, Modeling, Reproduction), which in four temporally consequential phases builds a tool capable of providing territorial, environmental, architectural and historical information of a case study. The method was applied for the design of a reuse of the brick factory, known as ex Sieci and located in Scauri in southern Lazio, owned by the Municipality of Minturno. The factory, which looks like a majestic cathedral on the sea, had in the past and still has a significant centrality in the social life of the local inhabitants.