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An Algorithmic Approach to Viewsheds Analysis for Cultural Landscape: Manziana and the Bracciano Lake Area

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The essay presents the results of a still ongoing research on the historical center of Manziana and on the cultural landscape around Bracciano Lake. In particular, the contribution studies the visual relationships between the village of Manziana, the other villages nearby, the Hermitage of Montevirginio and the area of the lake through the viewsheds analysis. Viewsheds analysis, generally performed through GIS software, if implemented through algorithmic modeling tools, allows obtaining data immediately usable in modeling software aimed at architectural and landscape design, reducing the gap between the analysis of reality and the design of future interventions.

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The research is co-financed by the Municipality of Manziana through an agreement with the Department of Architecture at the University of Roma Tre. Thanks to this support a postdoc grant entitled “City of foundation: Manziana and the conterminous territories”, coordinated by the professor Giovanna Spadafora, has begun on December 2018.

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  1. Department of Architecture, Roma Tre University, Largo Giovanni Battista Marzi 10, 00154, Rome, Italy

    Matteo Flavio Mancini

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Mancini, M.F. (2020). An Algorithmic Approach to Viewsheds Analysis for Cultural Landscape: Manziana and the Bracciano Lake Area. In: Di Nicolantonio, M., Rossi, E., Alexander, T. (eds) Advances in Additive Manufacturing, Modeling Systems and 3D Prototyping. AHFE 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 975. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20216-3_16

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