Databases and drawings to support the development of the documentation project. The case study of "Le Torricelle" 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 goal is to define, through a dialogue with the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape of Verona, Rovigo and Vicenza, standard identifications of documentation and conservation approaches. It involved 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. Data on construction and technological characteristics were cross-referenced with data on documented conditions of degradation. In this way, it was possible to generate synthesis frameworks useful for guiding conservation interventions on the typological and formal classifications of the fortified system. The issue of interest, however, is not only the quantitative richness of the data but the fact that this can be queried in the same database. All this is related to the idea of sustainability of the knowledge process and optimization of resources and costs. The work aims to define, together with the stakeholders of the city of Verona, an exportable protocol calculated to be sustainable over the entire extent of the walls of Verona, a UNESCO World Heritage site.