'Khrôma' the first software for management of the Color and Decoration Plan for small historic villages

Authors

  • Filippo Cherubini CNR IFAC
  • Andrea Casini CNR IFAC
  • Costanza Cucci CNR IFAC
  • Marcello Picollo CNR IFAC
  • Lorenzo Stefani CNR IFAC

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23738/CCSJ.110103

Keywords:

color, plan, digitization, architecture, Khrôma, software

Abstract

The 'Khrôma' project is aimed at creating the first software for the management of the Color and Decoration Plan that can be applied to small historic villages. As is well known, Italy is made up of many small historic villages that are described as "minor historical towns". They have been suffering for decades from a state of abandonment.
The total lack of awareness of the importance of buildings within a wider historical-artistic context has generated the development of a methodology that can guide the qualitative and cultural appearances of the construction sites: namely, the Color Plan. However, the drafting of the Color Plan always requires competent professionals who are able to read and interpret the indications provided by the plan: this is the most important critical issue that makes the color plan an ineffective tool in the hands of nonexperts.
An integral management on a digital platform would enable the application of the color plan for small historic villages, and would thus permit improved accessibility to the application of the plan as compared with the methodology currently in use.
The proposed ‘Khrôma’ software has the possibility to customize the functions and the database adjusting them to a territorial application on a specific area in question; its features include simple and intuitive graphical interface, independent functioning and accessibility that does not depende on any digital device.
Thanks to ‘Khrôma’ software, it will be possible then to introduce a simplification in any given technical-bureaucratic procedure that can then be communicated to citizens as information regarding the upgrading process to their territory.

Author Biographies

  • Filippo Cherubini, CNR IFAC

    Filippo Cherubini - is a technician at the “Nello Carrara”Institute of Applied Physics, National Research Council, Italy. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Architecture and two postgraduate course at the University of Florence. His interests include environmental restoration and architectural color studies.

  • Andrea Casini, CNR IFAC

    Andrea Casini - MSc in Physics in 1968, has been a researcher at IFAC-CNR from 1972 to 2010. Expert in signal and image processing, for many years he has been developing imaging spectroscopic methodologies for the study of works of art in the "Integrated spectroscopic methods for the diagnostics and monitoring of cultural and environmental heritage" project, with which he continues to collaborate as associate researcher.

  • Costanza Cucci, CNR IFAC

    Costanza Cucci - got her Physics “Laurea” and Ph.D. inConservation Science at the Florence University. Currently she is a researcher at IFAC-CNR. Her research focus is on spectroscopic techniques and data- processing algorithms applied to the fields of cultural heritage, environmental monitoring, and safety food controls.

  • Marcello Picollo, CNR IFAC

    Marcello Picollo - Ph.D., is a researcher at IFAC-CNR. His interests include color measurement, Vis-NIR Hyperspectral Imaging, and spot size UV-Vis-IR spectroscopic investigations of 2D polychrome objects.

  • Lorenzo Stefani, CNR IFAC

    Lorenzo Stefani - is a technician in telecommunications at IFAC-CNR. He is in charge of the development of hardware and software for computer-controlled instrumentation for the non-invasive and in situ study of artworks.

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Published

2019-05-24

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Vol. 11 No. 01 (2019)

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“’Khrôma’ the first software for management of the Color and Decoration Plan for small historic villages” (2019) Cultura e Scienza del Colore - Color Culture and Science, 11(01), pp. 19–27. doi:10.23738/CCSJ.110103.