GEOREFERENZIAZIONE E ANALISI MULTILIVELLO PER LA CONOSCENZA E LA RAPPRESENTAZIONE DIGITALE DELL’ISOLA DI MADONNA DEL MONTE A VENEZIA

The inter-university ERC research project, Venice’s Nissology (VeNiss), seeks to develop an interactive online platform to document and explore the architectural heritage of the Venetian archipelago, tracing its transformations from the 16th century to the present. Within this project, the island of Madonna del Monte is highlighted as a significant case study for eamining the transformative dynamics and research methodologies employed. The development of an interoperable digital database, which represents the historical phases of the islands within the context of ongoing research, adopts an intriguing approach to diachronic representation. Beginning with current imagery, obtained through integrated digital surveys, the various transformations of the islands over time are reconstructed and compared. For each island, including Madonna del Monte, a specific survey was designed based on its unique morphological and architectural characteristics, as well as its environmental context. The study’s results have been essential not only for georeferencing historical cartographic documentation with newly acquired data but also for contributing to the historical record, enabling the representation of spatial configurations that have evolved over centuries and are no longer directly observable. The process of hypothesising the reconstruction of the different change stages has been particularly notable, often challenged by the limited intelligibility or pronounced temporal discontinuities in documentary sources. The georeferencing of historical cartographic documentation, alongside the vectorisation of architectural structures and the morphology of Madonna del Monte, has yielded data of dual significance. These findings have been incorporated into the web platform for public consultation and utilised in the island’s three-dimensional reconstruction through the HBIM methodology.