Survey and Earthquake: The Case of Visso

Abstract

The research was carried out at the University of Camerino in the “Surveying of Architecture and Cities” course of School of Architecture. The research focused on small old villages of the Middle Ages, with castles, fortresses, towers and town walls, which define urban hierarchies and territorial boundaries. The location is the province of Macerata. For each tower or castle we carried out a direct surveys and a photogrammetry one. To better understand the context, a special focus was dedicated to the medieval center of Visso. The results showed the typically medieval morphological aspects of the village, also thanks to the axonometric representation. After the campaign of survey there was a terrible earthquake just in the same area of our research. Visso was very damaged and we worked with the Municipality to use in the better way our survey and to make a new one to show the earthquake results.