The Mesola historical centre

The project concerning the historical centre of Mesola, near Ferrara, has been developed to define guidelines useful at the future conservative interventions on the whole historical centre and particularly on surfaces. The research followed these steps: historical research and comparison between historical picture and the present condition of the historical landscape; high definition photographic documentation; metric-morphologic survey (by means of direct, topographic and 3D laser scanner procedures); macroscopic analyses and colorimetric characterization. The 3D survey was performed in order to acquire all the metric-morphological data and the surfaces specifications useful to the conservation and enhancement of the entire historical centre; the project is still in progress for what concern the definition of the guidelines for the interventions on surfaces and the normative actions for conservation of physical integrity of historic urban landscape. The visual recognition of the different materials, of the surface specifications and of the states of conservation was integrated by processing the reflectance data (acquired by the “time of flight” 3D laser scanner as well as the metric data) and was followed by a more detailed analysis of the colorimetric data.