Analysis and definition of intervention strategies for the conservation of the boundary walls in Verona

The research concerns a process of documentation and analysis for the development of guidelines useful for the conservation, maintenance and enhancement of a portion of the Magistral Walls of Verona. Within an agreement between the Municipality of Verona and the University of Pavia, numerous documentation campaigns were developed to define an overall knowledge of the diagnostic conditions of a 300 m portion from the 11 km boundary of the mediaeval Scaliger’s wall. The project, with the participation of an interdisciplinary group of professors and researchers, aims to simplify the intervention procedures on the entire Magistral fortified route. The goal is to define, through a dialogue with the superintendence, standard identifications of documentation and conservation approaches. It regarded the integration of multiple phases of digital documentation for morphometric drawing and 3D modelling, to support mineralogical, petrographic, archaeological, geo-seismic, endoscopic, structural and design evaluations for restoration and conservation. It has been possible to cross-reference data on the construction and technological characteristics with aspects relating to the documented conditions of degradation, generating synthesis frameworks and matrixes useful for guiding the conservation interventions on typological and formal classifications of the fortified system.