Strumenti contemporanei a servizio del passato: il quartiere della Suburra a Roma tra storia e attualità

Abstract

This paper shows the results of 3 years of research developped on a urban area of priority importance in the formation of the city of Rome, too often overlooked by the sector’s studies because of its not barycentric position in comparison to the actual historical center. The area is an excerpt of the Rione Monti, historically known with the toponym Suburra; in detail that Rione portion included among via Panisperna, via Cavour and via dei Fori Imperiali, which has preserved the original historic fabric characteristics. The research has then enabled a process of knowledge of the city meant as analysis of urban transformation through the historical-archival investigation, the maps and documents reading, the typological study, the architecture's structural control, all correlated to the geomorphological conformation of the territory and the urban farbic transformations. With the simultaneous application and the collected data examination through the survey and the graphic systematization. To make the reading of this process more accessible and immediate it has been chosen to use the 3D modeling to communicate and facilitate the comparison between the successive eras in order to receive and give a innovative response to the instances required by the application of ICT in the documentation of Cultural Heritage (Horizon 2020 - ICT for digital content and creativity). Modeling, possible by the integration of the data produced from the sources with the direct relief, was extended to the entire studied area and it’s been focused on the reconstruction of certain moments of the timeline.