La documentazione dell mura di Verona. Rilievo, analisi e schedatura delle fortificazioni veronesi

The territory of Verona, due to its geographical position and its topographical, geological and economic characteristics, since the earliest times heldan eminent role in military history. From the Roman times up to the formation of the most recent "Quadrilateral" of Austrian origin, the Verona defensive system played a major role in the development of defensive technologies and strategies for the urban qualification of military architecture. With more than 10 km of wall extension and the occupation of 100 hectares of land with ditches, embankments and towers, the defensive system has been perceived by the city throughout the last century as a bulky "wreck". The great magistral city walls which lost its defensive function hindered the ordered and modern development of the city, today are one of the strong points of the UNESCO nomination of the City of Verona that "represents, in an exceptional way, the concept of a fortified city during the different significant eras of the history of Europe". The multi-year research project governed by an agreement between the City of Verona and the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture of the University of Pavia, concerns the documentation of the entire fortified perimeter and the development of a 3D survey for the construction of a digital database connected to the filing of the main elements constituting the defense system. The aim is the documentation of the building's masonry and the elaboration of drawings from which to acquire information useful for the protection and conservation of artifacts, as well as models and digital reconstructions useful for the enhancement and development of these large urban containers. At the moment, the surveys of the main urban gates have been carried out, different methods of data acquisition on the wall layout have been tested for the development of the census system and 3D models have been elaborated on some Sanmicheli’s projects, for the development of hypothesis of historical reconstruction of the different phases involved in the development of the defense system.