Browsing by Author "Verdiani, G."

Now showing 1 - 7 of 7

Open Access
Cooperazione internazionale per il rilevamento e la documentazione dei tessuti urbani storici: l’insediamento medievale genovese di Galata, Istanbul. International cooperation for the survey and documentation of historical urban tissues: the medieval genoese settlement of Galata, Istanbul
(Didapress, Florence, 2019) Camiz, Alessandro; Özkuvancı, Özge; Verdiani, G.; Architecture; Bertocci, S.; Conte, A.; CAMIZ, Alessandro; ÖZKUVANCI, Özge
The International Urban Design Workshop “Urban Façade: Istanbul waterfront” took place in March 23th-30st 2019 at the Faculty of Architecture and Design, Özyegin University, Istanbul. Organised by the authors in collaboration with University of Parma, “Sapienza” University of Rome, University of Naples “Federico II”, DIDALABS, Department of Architecture, University of Florence, and the Università degli Studi “Mediterranea” of Reggio Calabria. The workshop focused on the architectural survey, analysis and redesign of selected urban blocks of Galata’s waterfront considering their ongoing transformation (Dixon, Verdiani, Cornell 2017). We should not design the transformation therein like an arbitrary object, as most contemporary architectural production seems to fancy, but rather as a living organism within the formation process of urban tissues (Camiz, Carlotti, Díez 2017). The area is an important connection between the sea and the historical Galata neighbourhood, acting as the city’s “urban facade” towards the Golden Horn (Cuneo 1987). The workshop considered critically inserensome of the contemporary metropolis’ problems in Istanbul, the substitution of historical urban tissues with new buildings.
Open Access
Digital survey and architectural representation of a Genoese tower for the Museum of the city and territory of Galata
(Pisa University Press, Pisa:, 2023-03-15) Camiz, Alessandro; Peker, D.; Spallone, R.; Verdiani, G.; Vitali, M.; Architecture; Bevilacqua, M. G.; Ulivieri, D.; CAMIZ, Alessandro
Galata, one of the oldest districts in Istanbul, still shows a historical and multi-layered urban texture. In 2019, within the “Urban Facade-Istanbul Waterfront” international workshop, a 3D laser scanner survey of Galata’s city walls was carried out. The raw data therein collected became the basis for a thesis in Architecture, as part of a joint research (Politecnico di Torino, Özyeğin University, Università di Firenze) on the fortified systems in the Mediterranean area. The multidisciplinary research comprised the historical study of the transformation of the urban tissue in the considered area, and the relationships between the city, the walls, and the towers. We processed the digital survey with the aim of realizing 3D models and orthophotos of a sector of the walls characterized by a Genoese semicircular tower, which today is abandoned. The final drawings are aimed at recognizing the building’s transformations, the different materials, and the relationship between the monument and the context. The research also outlined the damages, underlining the urgency of restoration works.
Open Access
An integrated approach to archaeological heritage: The Shipwreck Museum in the Kyrenia Castle, Cyprus
(ARUCAD Press, Kyrenia, 2023) Camiz, Alessandro; Ceylanlı, Zeynep; Verdiani, G.; Interior Architecture and Environmental Design; Architecture; Summerer, L.; Kiessel, M.; Kaba, H.; CAMIZ, Alessandro; CEYLANLI, Zeynep
Digital survey tools allow a fast acquisition of large datasets, documenting extensively the different phases of buildings and urban settlements; the data integration level has recently evolved so to keep together details at different scales and now is easy to manage, with a significant improvement in the overall understanding of built heritage. In this case, we integrated Terrestrial Photogrammetry, Aerial Photogrammetry and Terrestrial Lasergrammetry for the documentation of a large fortification, the Castle of Kyrenia, which concomitantly provided extensive data for the design of a museum inside the castle. The survey started within the international workshop held therein in May 2018, with the scientific coordination of Girne American University (Cyprus), Özyeğin University (Turkey), and Florence University (Italy).
Open Access
The interrupted city: divisione e connessioni
(Di Baio Editore, 2019) Camiz, Alessandro; Capozzi, R.; Verdiani, G.; Architecture; Marucci, G.; CAMIZ, Alessandro
'Interrupted city' is a traveling cultural initiative that openly takes its cue from the 'Roma Interrotta' conceived by Piero Sartogo as far back as 1978. In its own way it is a tribute to the inventor of that cultural project based on the Great Plan of Rome by Giambattista Nolli . In 2017 Tom Rankin, Paolo Pineschi and Alessandro Camiz founded this proposal with the aim of addressing a specific design theme, that of the interrupted city. Starting from the city of Nicosia, the divided capital of Cyprus, the itinerant seminar took place in different locations, in order to extend the question of division to the more inclusive theme of the interruption; that interruption that from the modern onwards has characterized the growth of cities, an organic interruption to the modern crisis, an interruption that is clearly read in the urban fabrics of our cities.
Open Access
The Kyrenia castle, an approach to digital documentation in the Cyprus island
(Museen der Stadt Wien–Stadtarchäologie, Vienna, 2018) Bertocci, S.; Verdiani, G.; Camiz, Alessandro; Ceylanlı, Zeynep; Şevketoğlu, M.; Interior Architecture and Environmental Design; Architecture; Börner, W.; Uhlirz, S.; CAMIZ, Alessandro; CEYLANLI, Zeynep
Documenting large architectures with an accurate survey has recently become possible even with a limited budget. Digital survey tools based on both active and passive solutions, offers today versatile opportunities for the architectural documentation, regardless of the building’s dimension. This paper presents the poster, prepared for the CHNT conference, with an extract of Terrestrial and Aerial Photogrammetry and Terrestrial Lasergrammetry. This was used by academics in the context of the Kyrenia Castle in the Cyprus Island, a large medieval fortification organized in an almost square planimetry with a side of about 150 meters and walls height up to about 30 meters, gathering the occasion of a specific workshop (activated for one week in May 2018) and producing the first (partial) digital model of this large built heritage. Following the protocols and best practice in digital documentation of this kind of architectures – the coordinator group of the workshop in synergy with the management unit of the museum hosted in the castle- has brought on an articulated experience moving from the morphology of the castle, to its stratigraphy, to its exhibition aspects, to its restoration issues, to the production of multimedia contents for technical and/or general public access. In that poster it was presented the structure of the workshop, the structure of the survey, the interactions and integrations between different surveys, the system of tools, and the results coming out at first, from the on-field operations brought on by the students participating to the workshop and the following processing operated by technical expert operators; going on to the development of common digital bases to evolve the way of approach to these monumental structures. To present the complete workflow with samples the poster was enriched with QR-Code links to online resources has been made to be a useful base for sharing and discussing the whole set of activities completed on this subject.
Open Access
Made without hands: survey, history and valorisation of the monastery of Panagia Acheiropoietos, Cyprus
(Firenze University Press, 2020) Verdiani, G.; Camiz, Alessandro; Architecture; CAMIZ, Alessandro
The north of Cyprus is a very complex area in terms of Cultural Heritage. The surveys of the Monastery of Acheiropoietos were undertaken in a scarcely studied context in which the political situation can generate important difficulties. The bases that have been set must, therefore, be understood as a first level of understanding, aimed at guiding future restorations and projects with the appropriate expertise.
Open Access
Seminario internazionale: lettura e progetto del castello di Kyrenia. International workshop: reading and designing the Kyrenia castle
(DIDApress, Florence, 2018) Camiz, A.; Verdiani, G.; Ceylanlı, Zeynep; Interior Architecture and Environmental Design; Bertocci, S.; CEYLANLI, Zeynep
The workshop “Reading and Designing the Kyrenia Castle” is one the results of the ongoing scientific collaboration between Girne American University (Department of Interior Architecture), with the Department of Architecture of the University of Florence and the Department of Interior Architecture of Özyeğin University. The workshop took place between the 6th and the 13th of May 2018, at Girne American University, Cyprus. Therein, fifty-six students coming from the undergraduate courses of Girne American University, Özyeğin University and University of Florence, divided in small groups, worked for one week under the supervision of fifteen master and doctoral students coming from University of Florence, Özyeğin University, “Sapienza” University of Rome, and Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi from Trabzon.