HeSc PTU&GIS    HeSc Arch       Venice–Mestre, Italy

Urban and Regional Planning & GIS Urban and Architectural Design

Service

HeSc is the common name for the joined professional activities of the two technical officies Hedorfer and Schiuma, the first of which is mainly engaged in urban and regional planning (PTU, from the Italian term “pianificazione territoriale e urbanistica”) and geospatial information systems (GIS), while the latter in urban and architectural design (Arch). More detailed information about the internal organisation of HeSc PTU&GIS and HeSc Arch can be found on the Staff page. Instead, concerning the typologies of service beyond those explained on this page that might be supplied by HeSc, but carried out by firms and offices of the professionals’ network, it is possible to consult the Partner page and, if desired, to connect directly to the specific web sites.

HeSc PTU&GIS / HeSc Arch actually offers the following range of service and professional performance (the illustrations on the right side contain links to high resolution images).

	PRG of Castelfranco Veneto (2002) Full image 1,250,158 bytes Format ISO A0 (119 cm × 84 cm) Density 50 dpi

Urban and Regional Planning  (HeSc PTU)       The first of the three main activity fields carried out by HeSc concerns the production, editing, and updating — either general or partial — of planning instruments at any administrative level (municipal, other local, sub-regional, regional). The kinds of proposed services envolve, on one hand, traditional town planning by providing for cartographical and textual elements in paper form and in the most common electronic formats for GIS and CAD data (RVC, E00, Shapefile, DXF, DGN, etc.), but on the other hand also producing complete urban planning information systems where the principles of analytical plan set-up (the results of the preliminary analyses and the other planning indications are systemically translated into the plan design), as well as integration between geometry and regulatory attributes and interfaceability with applications such as TNTcdu.
      HeSc PTU&GIS offers its professionality obviously also within single tasks of a larger planning process, and hence proposes itself also as a sector-specific consultant for public administrations and other private planning offices.

	Ljubljana passenger station compe- tition (2002) Full image 1,037,687 bytes Format 140 cm × 70 cm Density 50 dpi

Urban and Architectural Design  (HeSc Arch)       The second main sector of HeSc’s activities is represented by architectural design, including also urban design, i.e. that branch of architecture — closely related to urban planning, but anyhow clearly distinct from it — devoted to drawing up complexes larger than a single building, like quarters, neighbourhoods, blocks or urban contexts conditioned by single strategic objects.
       The urban and architectural design services provided by HeSc Arch are made up of both, administration and execution of all building project or action planning (allotment, urban renewal, and public housing planning) phases, and carrying out separately commissioned phases: projects leading to building permission, executive projects, construction management, energy balance evaluation following [Italian National] Law no 10 of 1991, estimates of quantities, updating of cadastrial documentation, and so forth. As regards structural calculations and building services design, HeSc Arch confers commissions to external consultants.
       The main competences are located in the field of hotel, school, and entertainment facility planning, as well as in that of new building and building renovation for dwelling houses and the like.

	Computation of the agro-sylvo- pastoral area at Jesolo (2000) Full image 370.919 bytes Resolution approx. 15 m

Geospatial Information Systems  (HeSc GIS)       The last — in order of presentation — of the three main activity families provided by HeSc concern planning, implementing, and managing of geospatial information systems (GIS, which is often called in Italy SIT, from “sistema informativo territoriale” which means literally “territorial information system”). In HeSc’s conception, GISs, or Italian SITs, are integrated systems for producing, maintaining (updating), manipulating (editing), querying, analysing, displaying, and printing data and information with geometric and/or attribute content referred or referable to the earth’s surface (geo-spatial, geo-graphical, geo-referenced, territorial).
       Out of this vision of GIS, HeSc GIS tries, whenever possible, to propose to its clients an approach which reflects this idea of geographical information management, and considers single data elements o data sets not just as static objects which are — once created — stored and if required retrieved for use, but as dynamic entities that may change their information content over time and establish spatial and attribute relations with other data and data sets.
       Also in the GIS sector, HeSc proposes itself as both, consultant or technician for carrying out complete symstems, as well as single part tasks, such as spatial database structuring, georeferencing, geographical co-ordinate reprojecting, laying out cartographical products, and many more. Besides, HeSc PTU&GIS is also able to supply the entire range of GIS software from the TNT Products familiy, including the applications TNTaqua and TNTcdu.