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The research here presented is aimed at the virtual reconstruction of the Cine-teatro Olympia in Catania, designed by architect Francesco Fichera in 1913, and has been inspired by considerations mentioned above, keeping trace of the metadata and the reconstructive assumptions during all the process. Indeed, the 3D modeling followed the cognitive phase and was based on the principles of transparency and ethical reconstruction, in order to ensure a clear distinction between original surviving parts and fully reconstructed parts (no longer existing in reality). Therefore, an in depth research has been carried out to harvest additional sources (books, relations, newspapers, historical images and catalogues). The several sources have been reordered, catalogued and compared. From this comparison have emerged several reconstructive hypotheses that have led to the formulation of reconstructive choices. Such choices have been made explicit, in the respect of the scientific transparency, in the model through visual codes.
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The research has received funding from Programma di Ricerca di Ateneo UNICT 2020-22 linea 2. The authors thanks the Museo della Rappresentazione for allowing the consultation and publication of the drawings and images of the Francesco Fichera Fund.
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Rizzo, C., Galizia, M., Santagati, C. (2023). The Virtual Reconstruction of the Cine-teatro Olympia in Catania for the Documentation and Memory of Places. In: Trizio, I., Demetrescu, E., Ferdani, D. (eds) Digital Restoration and Virtual Reconstructions. Digital Innovations in Architecture, Engineering and Construction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15321-1_3
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