Augmented Visualization: New Technologies for Communicating Architecture Alberto Sdegno Abstract The aim of this research was to define a procedure to communicate complex digital model of architecture using Augmented Reality (AR) algorithm. This technology, in fact, could be very useful to transmit results of experiments that are dense of references to be immediately understood, due to the interaction of the user involved directly in the process of understanding. The application was developed both for simple architectural models—such as small rooms—and to complex morphologies—which have, for example, detailed capitals—to test the way in which the user is involved into the system. Keywords Representation Á Augmented reality Á Visualization Á Architecture Á Digital model 1 Introduction The Augmented Reality is based on the concept that every object can be associated to a set of information which can describe it in a multiplicity of ways of knowledge. So, the object itself refers to a lot of levels of communication to help the user to have structured notes on it, in reference to some aspects that were to be transmitted. The AR procedures can be applied only to digital systems, that are the way in which information can be superimposed without limitation, and can be distributed worldwide thanks to the potentiality of the web. We can use indifferently images, videos, models, textual notes, that can be linked each other to augment the knowledge of the user, who can interact with them with his/her own hands, standing in front of the cam (Fig. 1). We can find the origins of AR in many essays and experiments that have something to do with the association of different levels of information. One of the first is without any doubt the Memex, that was a system invented by Bush [1] in the A. Sdegno (&) Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy e-mail: sdegno@units.it © Springer International Publishing AG 2018 M. Rossi and G. Buratti (eds.), Computational Morphologies, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60919-5_15 197