ABSTRACT
The paper explores methods of multiscalar digital representation of the fortified system of Verona, highlighting the importance of an approach capable of combining high resolution metric data with the construction of a coherent narrative of the cultural landscape in digital space. The walls and bastions that frame cities represent the connective tissue of urban identity, integrating within them traces of history, social dynamics and architectural values, transforming from a defensive structure to a living, stratified cultural symbol. The adoption of surveying techniques to document fortified structures has generated an extremely dense but difficult to manage database. Research has introduced processes of discretization and definition of levels of detail, modulating the density of information in relation to the purposes of analysis and dissemination. This choice encouraged the recomposition of the wall system through a three-dimensional model, where simplification proves to be an added value. The multiscalar model becomes a narrative and management device, a link between technical data and cultural interpretation, capable of guiding future documentation campaigns that will be conducted in the area. The results achieved to date by the Verona Città Murata project, the result of the collaboration between the Municipality of Verona and the University of Pavia, reveal how the transition from reality-based data to digital representation marks a methodological transformation that renews the way in which the fortified heritage is interpreted and enhanced.
Francesca Galasso
Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Pavia