It is an aircraft without a human pilot aboard, commonly known as drone used in several fields and with recent applications in architectural heritage documentation and monitoring (monuments, earthquakes, archaeology, etc).
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Understanding and Conserving Fortified and Difficult to Access Architectures through Digital Survey: A Case History in Southern Sicily
Mariateresa Galizia (University of Catania, Italy), Alessandro Lo Faro (University of Catania, Italy), and Cettina Santagati (University of Catania, Italy)
Copyright: © 2015
|Pages: 32
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8379-2.ch022
Abstract
In this paper we propose a multidisciplinary approach concerning the tower of Mongialino in Mineo (Sicily), which is a unique case in Sicily of a cylindrical tower with an inner cylindrical nucleus. The vestiges of the dungeon rise on a rock promontory that dominates the valley of Margi, a site that has great landscape and territorial value. The building is affected by important collapses and lesions, and urgently requires a safeguard intervention that requires a deep knowledge and understanding of the construction. The first step of this process is a suitable documentation and representation of the cylindrical shape and its towering position. The peculiarity of the object requires the integrated use of current technologies of surveying able to provide a metrically-accurate three-dimensional model. The second step is the critic reading of the technological, typological and material elements that constitutes the constructive apparatus of the building (masonry, ribs, ring-like vault), and the geometric analysis addressed at the virtual reconstruction of the original shape.