Augmented Reality for the accessibility of architectural archive drawings

The cultural heritage represented by architectural drawings kept in public and private Italian archives has been the subject of attention by the contexts institutionally responsible for their conservation and archiving. With the progressive establishment of digitization processes in the archival sector and with the creation of platforms specifically dedicated to the archives of architects, methods of managing accessibility to information and strategies for exploitation. In particular, two needs emerged: to combine the interpretation of drawings with their archival description, showing their role as testimony of the authors' thinking and poetics and their cultural context; To pursue the creation of digital products with differentiated accessibility objectives and possibilities for use by a diverse audience. The present paper’s research is based on these considerations.