Resumen de Architetture fortificate in Istria: analisi, restituzione BIM ecomunicazione avanzata di due forti a Pola
Alberto Sdegno, Veronica Riavis, Petar Bašić
The defensive system of Pola and the Southern Istria consists of about thirty fortifications built during theXIX century by the Habsburg Empire, to realize and protect the arsenal in those territories.The research aims to outline the historical reasons and the constructive motivations of these fortressescharacterized by different types of geometric plan -Polesana tower, segmented Polesana tower andpolygonal fortress Feldwerk- with their own constructive logic, functions, and inner distribution. Many ofthese, following the directives of the general urban plan of Pula of 1966, were destroyed, or abandoned.This is due to the logic of the damnatio Memoriae that involves several buildings built before 1947.Fort Bourguignon and Fort San Giorgio, built around 1850 in Pola, are two circular fortifications madeof Istrian stone with an inner courtyard, covered for camouflage reasons by ground and grass: a type ofstructures that quickly became obsolete due to the rapid development of military engineering.The studio deals with these forts and deepens them through the informative modeling of the architecturebased on archival materials and surveys, to obtain a graphic restitution and to integrate the photographicdocumentation. The aim is also to enhance these buildings not protected by safeguard policies, todisseminate their history through the new technologies such as rapid prototyping and virtual reality.
