From Remote Sensing to Digital Reconstruction of Simulated Etruscan Timber Carpentry

The Etruscan Ipogeo dei Volumni is excavated in a slope of soft sandstone. A two-slopes and other square corbelled ceilings resemble the intrados of true scale timber carpentries. There is shown a logical path of elaboration, visualization and comparison between three different models: departing from the point cloud after the survey with 3D laser scanner and total station, to the organic meshed model arriving at a summarizing 3D surface model of the main ceilings. The research project deals with experimentations to obtain dimensional and geometric information by an archaeological remote sensing survey developing a methodology for processing color scale images for recognition of sensible global deformations of an ancient deteriorated structure, with focus on the visualization of the spatial distribution, geometry and morphology and concluding with the typological study of the simulated timber structure.