POLITECNICO DI TORINO DIPARTIMENTO CASA-CITTA’ ARCHIWORDNET, A BILINGUAL THESAURUS FOR ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING: COMPILATION AND APPLICATION TO HYBRID.

POLITECNICO DI TORINOPOLITECNICO DI TORINODIPARTIMENTO CASA-CITTA’

ARCHIWORDNET, A BILINGUAL THESAURUSFOR ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING:

COMPILATION AND APPLICATION TO HYBRID ARCHIVES

A. Bocco, E. Bodrato, A. Perin

Hybrid Architectural Archives Conference

NAI, Rotterdam/Den Haag 11-12 June 2009

www.polito.it/ricerca/dipartimenti/dicas/

AWN = Polito/DICAS + FBK/iRST

SIS architectural photographs databank (only Intranet access, Oracle platform)

LSBC architectural archives (Guarini regional catalog, online)

AWN

“synsets” rich semantic relations network domain-specific fully integrated in general-language WordNet

specialised sources for architecture and building

school, schoolhouse -- (Architecture, School) a place where people receive education; “the school was built in 1932”; “he walks to school every morning”

   -> <building_for_the_tertiary_sector, services_building> -- (Architecture, Town_Planning) a building whose main function is to host any activity ascribed to the tertiary sector of economy

      -> building, edifice -- (Architecture, Town_Planning) a structure that encloses spaces mainly used for the performance of human activities, and stands more or less permanently in one place; “there was a three-story building on the corner”; “it will be an imposing edifice”

         -> <building_or_building_complex> -- (Architecture) ***            -> <structure_(CEAr)> -- (Architecture) a structure pertaining

to the Civil Engineering and Architecture domain               -> structure, construction -- (Factotum) a thing constructed;

a complex construction or entity; “the structure consists of a series of arches”; “she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons”

                  -> artifact, artefact -- (Factotum) a man-made object                     -> object, physical_object -- (Factotum) a physical

(tangible and visible) entity; “it was full of rackets, balls and other objects”

                        -> entity, something -- (Factotum) anything having existence (living or nonliving)

<by composition or origin><by quality> <by form>

METAL

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METAL

metal_powder

noble_metalsteel aluminum alloy

metal_leaf

leaf powder

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AAT Hierarchy

AWN Hierarchy

AWN semantic areas

Architectural styles

Materials (*)

Construction products

Techniques

Tools

Building components (*)

Single buildings and building complexes (*)

Physical properties

Conditions

Disciplines

People

Documents

Drawings and representations

(*) http://multiwordnet.itc.it/english/home.php

Example 1

Politecnico di Torino, Dicas-LSBC, Fondo Melis, Villa Tornielli al Monte Oro, 66

subject: building, residential building, villa; entrance hall, fireplace, mantelpiece, manteltree, column, frieze, cornice, modillion, capital, base, torus, scotia, listel

words written on the document: fianco (lit., side) = side elevation, hall = entrance hall (androne), al vero (lit., life-scale) = scale of 1:1

medium

technique

etc.

Example 2

Politecnico di Torino, DICAS, House in Joussaud (Pragelato, TO), eco_037_002_AC_1446. Photo: Diego Cappellazzo

description:

- very thick load-bearing wall, made of mixed-sized stones, plastered with lime mortar which acts also as binder;

- wooden frame structure, with small stones infilling;

- wooden frame structure, with wooden planks infilling

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