Research – Unesco Research Lab Mantova

BIG_SMAART – BIM & GIS for Spatial and Multidimensional Archaeological Artefacts and Techniques

© D Jonez su Unsplash BIG_SMAART – BIM & GIS for Spatial and Multidimensional Archaeological Artefacts and Techniques Scientific Director: Luigi Fregonese Collaborator: Olga Rosignoli Partners: Università degli Studi di NAPOLI “L’Orientale«,Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II Founded by Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca Contacts: unescolab-mantova@polimi.it Project year: 2023-2025 BIG_SMAART is a PRIN project (Research…
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Underground Spaces and Hidden Staircases of the Basilica of Sant’Andrea

Underground Spaces and Hidden Staircases of the Basilica of Sant’Andrea Scientific Directors: Andrea Adami, Francesco Fassi, Luigi Fregonese Collaborators: Jacopo Helder, Laura Taffurelli – Unesco Research Lab Ahmad Elalailyi – 3DSurveyGroup, PoliMi ed FBK Trento Luca Perfetti – DICATAM, Università degli studi di Brescia | UniBS Antonio Mainardi – Gexel Paweł Trybała – 3D Optical…
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Cultural Routes between Art, Faith And Culture

Cultural Routes Between Art, Faith And Culture Recovery, enhancement and inclusiveness of the Diocesan Ecclesiastical Heritage of Mantua https://www.unescolab.mantova.polimi.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Beni-emblematici_Polimi_2024_2.mp4 Scientific Directors: Andrea Adami, Luigi Fregonese, Massimo Ferrari, Claudia Tinazzi, Carlo Togliani Collaborators: Ginevra Rossi, Marta Fasol, Daniela Mori, Jacopo Helder, Laura Taffurelli Founded by Fondazione Cariplo, Regione Lombardia Partners: Diocesi di Mantova (capofila progetto), Parrocchia di…
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The Plan for the Elimination of Architectural Barriers for the city of Mantua

The Plan for the Elimination of Architectural Barriers for the city of Mantua Scientific Directors: Stefania Campioli, Carlo Peraboni Collaborator: Carmen Angelillo, Martina Borini Partners: Comune di Mantova Contacts: stefania.campioli@polimi.it, carlo.peraboni@polimi.it Project year: 2023-2025 The P.E.B.A. (Plan for the Elimination of Architectural Barriers) is a fundamental plan to ensure accessibility and usability of buildings and public…
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Scientific support in drafting the Territorial Government Plan (PGT)

Scientific support in drafting the Territorial Government Plan (PGT) Scientific Directors: Carlo Peraboni, Martina Borini Collaborator: Carmen Angelillo Partners: Comune di Mantova Contacts: martina.borini@polimi.it, carlo.peraboni@polimi.it Project year: 2023 – 2025 The Territorial planning of the Municipality of Mantova is regulated by the Territorial Government Plan (PGT), an urban planning instrument composed of three documents: the Plan…
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UAS LiDAR Acquisition for 3D Survey of the Valdaro River Port in Mantua: Initial Testing by Politecnico di Milano in the Hymantovalley Area

UAS-LiDAR Acquisition for 3D Survey of the Valdaro River Port in Mantua Initial Testing by Politecnico di Milano in the Hymantovalley Area Scientific Directors: Luigi Fregonese, Andrea Adami, Daniele Treccani Collaborator: Yuwei Cao, Jacopo Helder, Laura Taffurelli, Luca Valisi, Carmelo di Rosa Partners: Provincia di Mantova, SPV- Servizi Portuali Valdaro S.r.l. Contacts: unescolab-mantova@polimi.it Project year: 2024…
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Project for a new square on the water in Porto Catena, Mantua

Project for a new square on the water in Porto Catena, Mantua Limit is an opportunity Scientific Directors: Massimo Ferrari, Claudia Tinazzi Collaborator: Nicola Cimarosti, Martin Corullon, Annalucia D’Erchia, Pedro Escoriza Torralbo, Federica Pugliese, Cristian Undurraga Contacts: massimo.ferrari@polimi.it, claudia.tinazzi@polimi.it Project year: 2022 Mantua, sorrounded by water, preserves in the history of its formation an extraordinary liminal…
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Permanent exhibit of the new Roman section of the Archaeological Museum of Mantua

Permanent exhibit of the new Roman section of the Archaeological Museum of Mantua Scientific Directors: Massimo Ferrari, Claudia Tinazzi Collaborator: Annalucia D’Erchia, Pedro Escoriza Torralbo Partners: Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Mantova Contacts: massimo.ferrari@polimi.it, claudia.tinazzi@polimi.it Project year: 2018 The exhibition design for the new Roman section is aimed at displaying artifacts found in Mantua at the bishop’s…
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Scan-to-BIM: the survey of the Basilica of San Michele Maggiore in Pavia

Scan-to-BIM: the survey of the Basilica of San Michele Maggiore in Pavia Scientific Directors: Luigi Fregonese, Nora Lombardini Collaborator: Andrea Adami, Jacopo Mario Helder, Barbara Fazion, Laura Taffurelli, Daniele Treccani Partners: Associazione “Il Bel San Michele” O.d.V. Contacts: luigi.fregonese@polimi.it, nora.lombardini@polimi.it Project year: 2021-2022 SCAN-to-BIM is the process of creating an HBIM model of an existing…
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For a Zero Horizon Atlas of the Landscapes. Lost and rediscovered ecotones

For a Zero Horizon Atlas of the Landscapes Lost and rediscovered ecotones Scientific Directors: Marco Borsotti, Christian Campanella, Luigi Fregonese, Luigi Spinelli Collaborator: Elia de Paoli, Giulia Zavaglio, Beatrice Ziviani Contacts: marco.borsotti@polimi.it, christian.campanella@polimi.it, luigi.fregonese@polimi.it Project year: 2022 The project explores the eco-cultural and tourism potential offered by the navigability of the Po, Italy’s main river,…
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Drone photogrammetric survey of Sabbioneta

Drone photogrammetric survey of Sabbioneta Scientific Directors: Luigi Fregonese, Andrea Adami Collaborator: Donatello Donnoli, Jacopo Helder, Olga Rosignoli, Laura Taffurelli, Daniele Treccani Partners: Comune di Sabbioneta Contacts: luigi.fregonese@polimi.it, andrea.adami@polimi.it, daniele.treccani@polimi.it Project year: 2022 The study of cities and their management is nowadays approached through the use of the digital twin, which is a digital representation of the territory, accompanied…
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The River and the City. Re-qualification of the floodplain area of San Benedetto Po

The River and the City Re-qualification of the floodplain area of San Benedetto Po Scientific Directors: Andrew Berman, Angelo Lorenzi, Luca Cardani Collaborator: Linda Flaviani, Marcela Marques Costa Partners: Comune di San Benedetto Po Contacts: luca.cardani@polimi.it, angelo.lorenzi@polimi.it Project year: 2022 The project offers an opportunity to reestablish the ancient relationship between people and the Great River, dealing…
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MHD | Mantua Human Design – Ideas and projects for an accessible city

MHD | Mantua Human Design Ideas and projects for an accessible city Scientific Directors: Carlo Peraboni, Stefania Campioli Collaborator: Marta De Leo, Sebastiano Marconcini, Chiara Minato Partners: Comune di Mantova, Vivi Amo Mantova – Progetto di ricerca per una città accogliente e accessibile Contacts: stefania.campioli@polimi.it ; carlo.peraboni@polimi.it Project year: 2018 The Mantua Human Design research project focuses…
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yOUR2030

Enhancement of the Stable Meadows territory in the Mincio Valley Scientific Directors: Carlo Peraboni Collaborator:Carmen Angelillo, Martina Borini, Stefania Campioli, Andrea de Toni, Chiara Visentin, Chiara Lanzoni Contacts: carlo.peraboni@polimi.it Project year: 2021 – ongoing yOUR 2030 is a container that brings together the strategic directions pursued by the Mantua Campus to promote sustainability-oriented planning as indicated…
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Mantua: city services system and the new urban welfare

Mantua: city services system and the new urban welfare Scientific Directors:Carlo Peraboni, Martina Borini Collaborator: Giulia Guerci Partners: Comune di Mantova, INU – Istituto Nazionale Di Urbanistica Contacts: martina.borini@polimi.it, carlo.peraboni@polimi.it Project years: 2020-2022 The work has brought to bear a series of reflections on the different interpretations that interest the city to date and the intrinsic characters…
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Sidewalk Inventory in Sabbioneta

Daniele Treccani, a PhD of Department ABC at Politecnico di Milano, and collaborator of He.Su.Tech. group, is studying in his research the management of physical accessibility in historical sites, in particular he is focusing on the AI methods for the automatic retrieval of useful attributes of sidewalks, basing on a point cloud. The title of his research is “Point Cloud Processing for the accessibility management in historic urban environments. The case of Unesco site of Sabbioneta.” and…

3D digitization of Sabbioneta

He.Su.Tech. group members had the opportunity of testing on field a state-of-the-art survey instruments, the mobile mapping system Leica Pegasus:Two. The object of the survey was the historic city and UNESCO site of Sabbioneta. Leica Geosystem Italia kindly provided the instruments to support the researches of Hesutech. In specific, the purpose of the research connected to this survey was the exploitation of AI for the processing of the survey data and for the automatic computation of meaningful urban physical accessibility information of the historic urban environment.

The processing of point clouds exploiting AI techniques

Daniele Treccani, a PhD candidate of Politecnico di Milano and collaborator of Mantovalab, spent a research stay of two months at in Vigo, Galizia, Spain.

“Relatorio de Estagio de Arquitectura – Eduardo Souto de Moura” exibition

“Relatorio de Estagio de Arquitectura – Eduardo Souto de Moura” exibition Scientific Director: Barbara Bogoni Collaborators: Francesco Cancelliere, Andrea Oliveiro Partner: Contact: ricerca-mantova@polimi.it The exhibition displays the facsimile edition of the “Architecture Internship Report by Eduardo Souto de Moura”, which he presented at the Escola de Belas Artes of Porto when receiving his degree in…
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Inclusione e Città Storica: Dialoghi per un’Architettura delle Persone

Inclusione e Città Storica Dialoghi per un’Architettura delle Persone Scientific Director: Sebastiano Marconcini Collaborators: Stefania Campioli, Silvia Mangili, Alessandro Morganti, Erica Isa Mosca, Olga Rosignoli, Daniele Treccani Contact: thinktank-inclusione@polimi.it Il “Think Tank – Inclusione e Città Storica” organizza una giornata di studi per proseguire il dibattito iniziato con l’evento “Open Talks! sulla Progettazione Inclusiva”. La giornata si…
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Experiences & Actions for Sustainability. Land Repair Day. Goal 2030

The theme of sustainability discussed from multiple points of view through the experiences and concrete actions of different stakeholders was the subject of the seminar organized by the Land Repair group of Mantovalab. The experiences reported, different in type, purpose and users, have highlighted the need to act with an integrated approach. Starting from Goal 11, “Sustainable Cities and Communities”, of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the aim is to develop a 360° sustainability.

ReActive Strategies 2020

The students who participated in the 2020 workshop edition have developed 6 project CONCEPTS all oriented (with different strategies) to the urban regeneration of the industrial area of Carpi (MO) to make it more integrated with the city, richer in services, more usable by all, greener.

Inclusive Design Open Talks!

To foster a culture of inclusive design, the Think Tank “Inclusione e Città Storica” promotes a number of round tables through which we aim to set up a multidisciplinary dialogue. This event is intended as a moment of exchange between young researchers from national academia and research community working on inclusion and historical city.

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BIM4CH. Building Information Modelling for the planned conservation of Cultural Heritage: a question about Geomatics too

The research project has tried to verify the integrability of the advanced survey systems of architecture (Geomatics), with those of management and organization of the architectural project of BIM

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The Future of History. Mantua UNESCO Chair’s Researches

The exhibition The Future of History. Mantua UNESCO Chair’s researches, curated by the Mantua Campus of the Politecnico di Milano, has focused attention on the heritage to be rediscovered, known and enhanced through design in its various scales. The theme was the project and its representation.

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The “Scala Santa” of the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua. Different 3D survey approaches for documentation and study

The seventeenth-century reproduction of the Scala Santa in Rome in the Ducal Palace of Mantua was the subject of an in-depth study and a 3D survey with different laser scanner technologies in 2007.

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Sabbioneta and Charleville. The Gonzaga’s ideal cities

The Compelsso Museale Palazzo Ducale in Mantua organized, in 2017-18, a temporary exhibition on the theme of Ideal Cities, tiled: “Costruire, abitare, pensare. Sabbioneta e Charleville città ideali dei Gonzaga”. The MantovaLab partecipated to the exhibition with…

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Santa Maria’s Convent in Castiglione delle Stiviere (MN). HBIM for conservation and redevelopment

A 3D fully geodatabase is the starting point for the generating the HBIM of the ancient convent of Santa Maria in Castiglione delle Stiviere. All the further elaborations, drafted for representating the state of conservation of the building, are…

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The Teatro di Sabbioneta. The building as a document

The Teatro di Sabbioneta, a project commissioned by Duke Vespasiano Gonzaga to the famous architect Vincenzo Scamozzi, is a valuable example of the late Italian Renaissance. The research, carried out in conjunction with historians and surveyors, has shown how an accurate survey, 3D and photogrammetric, of a complex architecture, can support historical analysis and reconstructive theses.

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Basilica of S.Andrea in Mantova. The survey of the main facade for the restoration and seismic adaptation

The monumental facade of the Basilica of S.Andrea in Mantua by Leon Battista Alberti has undergone restoration work, structural investigation and seismic adjustment, which took place in various phases from 2005 to 2015. The Hesutech group has produced a 3D geodatabase, which over the years incorporated multisensor data (…) in collaboration with the Regional Secretariat for Lombardy, MIBACT and the Diocese of Mantua.

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Structural monitoring of the Basilica of S. Andrea in Mantua. Innovative methodologies for planned conservation

The monitoring of the cracks state evolution and the precision levelling are the diagnostic techniques of buildings for the control of dynamic shifts and movements of structures.
The structural monitoring of the Basilica of S. Andrea in Mantua has been realized with…

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Reveal the Unknown. Triennale di Milano 2019

Within the exhibition “Broken Nature: design takes on human survival”, Italian Pavilion, the Hesutech group contributed with a panel on the topic of detection with high resolution systems and APR aircraft systems. The mosaic surfaces inside St Mark’s Basilica in Venice (…)

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The bust of Francesco II Gonzaga: from digital documentation to 3D printing

Geomatics technics and methods are able to provide a great contribution to the Cultural Heritage (CH) processes, being adaptable to different purposes: management, diagnosis, restoration, protection, study and research, communication, formation, and fruition of the CH. The 3D model of the terracotta Reinassance bust of Francesco II Gonzaga, in the City Museum of Mantua, was obtained from (…)

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The wooden equestrian statue of Vespasiano Gonzaga in Sabbioneta

The ancient equestrian statue of Vespasiano Gonzaga is part of a “cavalcata”, originally of ten knights, which represents the ancestors of the Duke of Sabbioneta. The textured 3D model of the statue was obtained through (…)

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Post-earthquake survey for the restoration and structural consolidation of the bell tower of Santa Barbara in the Ducal Palace of Mantua

The strong tremors of the earthquake in Emilia and Lombardy in 2012 caused the collapse of the dome of the bell tower of the palatine basilica of Santa Barbara. The structure, designed by architect Bertani in the sixteenth century and an important architectural element of the skyline of the city of Mantua, was surveyed by the Hesutech group after the securing works. With photogrammetric technologies using SAPR (drone) and laser scanning…

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The churches of the Diocese of Mantua damaged by the 2012 earthquake

The 2012 post-earthquake documentation of 23 churches belonging to the Diocese of Mantua was carried out by the Hesutech group with a diversified approach that depended on both their state of disruption and hazard, and the necessities and documentation required by entities and professionals interested in intervening on the assets. (…)

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The “Gonzaga gardens” project. The survey for the recovery of the gardens of Palazzo Te in Mantua and Palazzo Giardino in Sabbioneta

The detailed survey of the Gonzaga gardens and the architecture that characterizes them, are part of an important research project, curated and coordinated by the Mantua and Sabbioneta World Heritage Office, and funded by MIBACT.

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San Marco 3D. Bim for Cultural Heritage

San Marco 3D is a great project that aims to document the entire Basilica, through a digital model, rich in information and useful to the managing institution of the property. The Basilica of San Marco in Venice is a unique case in the field of Cultural Heritage, as it is a building site always active for its maintenance and preservation (…)

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Survey and structural monitoring for a vulnerability study and intervention project. The Salone dell’ Armeria of the Palazzo del Capitano in Mantua

The first survey (…) was carried out for the accurate and detailed documentation of the geometries, surfaces and the cracking state of the “spaces” of the hall. The wooden coffered ceilings, their intrados and the extrados, were also entirely surveyed for consolidation and conservative restoration. Later on (2011), the research group conducted a study on the structural behaviour of the entire building, which was subject to significant static disruption. (…)

Urban Guidelines

The research started within the framework of the Cooperation Agreement signed in June 2014 by the Municipality of San Giovanni Lupatoto and the Mantova Campus of Politecnico di Milano.

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Ducal Palace in Mantua. Cortile della Cavallerizza and Appartamento Grande in Corte Nuova

The complex of rooms that make up the so-called Appartamento Grande in Corte Nuova, with the Trojan Hall and the Galleria dei Mesi, as well as the Palazzina della Rustica and the Cortile della Cavallerizza, are the spaces of the Gonzaga palace where the artist and architect Giulio Romano worked in the sixteenth century

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Cathedral of San Pietro in Mantua. HBIM for programmed conservation

A HBIM model, aimed at the management of an architectural complex articulated in a perspective of programmed conservation, has been realized for the Cathedral of San Pietro in Mantua.

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Naples subway: the survey of archaeology in the urban and infrastructural context

The project documents the progress of the archaeological excavations in the context of the works for the construction of the MetroNaples, Duomo Station and Municipal Station, under the scientific direction of the Superintendence for the Archaeological Heritage of Naples and Pompei. The methods of terrestrial laser scanner survey and photogrammetric acquisition, from SAPR (UAV) or from the ground in various ways, are used for…

Cultural Routes. European values through space and time

The research theme reflectS around projects capable of connecting different territorial and landscape situations which are, however, recognizable as characterized by common identity elements. In these contexts, the cultural itinerary becomes an opportunity to promote a heterogeneous set of architectural elements and places.

ReActive Strategies. Idea, Projects and Actions for the city

The aim of the research is to reflect on the different characteristics of the processes of regeneration and the plurality of relationships that these interventions establish with the urban system and with the communities that live in and animate those contexts.

Mantova Human Design

The Mantova Human Design research project focuses on three themes: the city of Mantua, the people who live there, the project; three strongly connected areas on which attention has been focused in a connected way.
“Human” in the sense of a common denominator that identifies us as human beings, without further categorisation

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