Digital models for the virtual reconstruction and the representation of the existing: the city gates of Turin

• Autores: Marco Vitali
• Localización: Defensive Architecture of the Mediterranean: XV to XVIII Centuries: Vol. VI / coord. por Ángel Benigno González Avilés, 2017, ISBN 978-84-16724-76-5, pág. 589
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This paper focuses on researches already undertaken and presented in this conference: starting from the work previously carried out for the setting up, at the urban scale, of a consistent database for the fortified walls of the city of Turin � which updates reading diagrams, maps, archival documents �, it intends to make thematic analysis aimed on the one hand to survey the �existing� and to critically read historical layers, on the other hand to digital reconstructions. In this regard, city gates constitute a homogeneous architectural 'category' that follow the complex transformation � by enlargements, overlays, reconnections � of the walls layout. On the gates, we are organizing a collection of digital representations, uniformly designed and organized to test study approaches, operating methods, purposes and modes of the graphic communication: starting from the analysis and instrumental survey of the only well-preserved gate (Porta Palatina, I century AD) for the representation of the historical layers; to continue, in constant relation with sources, with virtual anastylosis.