Giovanni Pancani

• Associate Professor
• Professor (Associate) at University of Florence

The paper deals with the documentation project of the Rocca della Verruca, a medieval fortress built on top of one of the peaks of the Pisan Mountains to control the valley of the Arno river; the fortress was fortified in modern times by the Florentines and was visited by important architects such as Giuliano da Sangallo and Leonardo da Vinci. The...

Quota, (a small village in Tuscany, Italy) rises on the eastern side of the Pratomagno massif, the mountain around which the initial stretch of the Arno river extends, from the springs on Mount Falterona crossing the Casentino valley and lapping Arezzo, to then continue in the direction of Florence. In 2016, an in-depth study of the village of Quo...

The contribution, describing the significant project and restoration site of the Tabernacle of Lupo di Francesco, at the entrance of the Camposanto Pisano, aims to consolidate a methodological approach based on in-depth morphological and diagnostic documentation for the restoration site. The operations involved a research group from the Department...

The “castle of Malmantile”, on the hills of Lastra a Signa, was built with the intention of strengthening the Florentine defenses against the rival city of Pisa. It represents one of the most interesting examples of late medieval fortification that has best preserved the entirety of the walls. It was originally built as a military outpost along the...

The REACT research addresses internal areas with a strongly interdisciplinary approach, using the concept of cultural landscape to unite different problem dimensions: settlements, architectural heritage, cultivated landscapes, natural systems, and community practices. The focus is on Casentino’s cultural landscape, the first valley crossed by the A...

The paper analyses the complex defensive system of the Ksar of Tamnougalt in the Drâa Valley, built using traditional earthen construction techniques. Despite its current state of partial abandonment, the village’s historical and cultural importance is tangible in its material traces, witnesses of the Berber cultural presence, as well as its archit...

This research explores the use of fast-survey technologies and digital tools to document and preserve traditional earthen architecture, focusing on the Ksar of Tamnougalt in Morocco’s Drâa Valley as a case study. Situated along the historic Trans-Saharan trade route, this village holds significant historical and cultural significance despite its pa...

ll contributo presenta attraverso il caso studio della Pieve di Corsignano a Pienza alcune strategie e processi di traduzione dei dati strumentali reality-based in modelli informativi parametrici HBIM a supporto di attività di documentazione, diagnostica e conservazione del Patrimonio Architettonico. // The paper presents through the case study of...

The complex of the Sacro Monte and the Convent of San Vivaldo is considered one of the most interesting places of pilgrimage in Tuscany. Its location is of high landscape value, and in 1984, it was declared a national monument. San Vivaldo represents one of the most significant points within the network of places of pilgrimage and devotion represen...

Located on the Rocky Promontory overlooking the town of Caprona, the Upezzinghi Tower is a 19th-century reconstruction of a watchtower that once served the ancient castle, which existed in the mid-11th century and was destroyed by the Florentines in 1433. The hill on which it stands has been gradually eroded due to stone quarrying, significantly al...

The Fountain of the 99 Spouts is the monumental fountain of L'Aquila and is commonly considered one of the city's first civic monuments. It was likely erected based on the design by architect Tancredi da Pentima in 1272, just a few years after the city's second foundation. However, Da Pentima's involvement may have been limited to the construction...

The survey and the documentation of the monastic complex of San Vivaldo are part of a wider project originating from the collaboration between the Department of Architecture of the University of Florence (DiDA), the ISCTE-IUL of the University of Lisbon, the UCP-CEHR of the Portuguese Catholic University and the UB of the University of Barcelona, u...

The paper describes the digital survey project of the Verruca fortress, which is located on the summit of Monte Serra, in the Pisan mountains. Today the fortress is in a state of ruin, and recently a summer fire caused the loss of the vegetation that had massified around the building, thus allowing to program the analysis of the walls of the fortre...

The Lisbon earthquake occurred in 1755, which affected Morocco seriously, provoked the collapse of the Triumphal arch of Caracalla in Volubilis. The currently visible monument is the result of the rebuilding carried out in 1930 by French restores. In this paper, the timeline of collapses caused by the subsequent seismic quakes is retraced aimed at...

The Municipality of Castel San Focognano is located in Tuscany in the province of Arezzo. The first historical memory dates back to 1028, the castle stood in the middle of three ditches , above a precipitous eastern buttress of Pratomagnowirew and was surrounded by a double circle of walls. The Giannellini family maintained its possession until 132...

Il borgo di Strumi si trova presso Poppi, in Toscana, al confine settentrionale della provincia di Arezzo, in Casentino. È stato fondato dai Conti Guidi, che furono determinanti anche per la crescita del borgo medioevale di Poppi, dove, nel XII secolo edificarono il poderoso castello-palazzo sulla sommità della collina in posizione altamente strate...

Villages et quartiers à risque d’abandon sont aujourd’hui une problématique commune à des nombreuses régions de la Méditerranée, considérée comme un point stratégique dans les nouvelles politiques européennes. L’abandon progressif des zones internes est une constante dans les pays caractérisés par le sous-développement économique, avec les phénomèn...

The archaeological survey of architectures, if supported by structural and diagnostic analyses, can offer the possibility of documenting and interpreting transformations undergone by buildings related to specific dynamics in response to destructive natural events occurring over time. This data, if correctly interpreted, can have significant repercu...

Piazza dei Miracoli in Pisa is an iconic place and an artistic heritage of Italian genius. It has inspired numerous travelers since the time of the "Grand Tour", and still continues to attract the attention of thousands of visitors. The charm of the large architectural complex manages to attract the attentions of both an often distracted public as...

Sesto Fiorentino (FI). Tumulo etrusco della Montagnola: un viaggio virtuale Abstract-Il contributo si propone di presentare un progetto voluto nel 2015 dal Comune di Sesto Fiorentino, in collabora-zione con l'Associazione turistica Pro Loco e la Soprintendenza archeologia, belle arti e paesaggio per la città metropolitana di Firenze e le province d...

The Basilica of San Miniato al Monte in Florence is an integral part of the homonymous abbey, one of the most important religious centres of the Tuscan capital. In its thousand-year history, the celebrations of the thousand years since its foundation were held in 2018, the abbey has represented and still represents the spiritual and moral center of...

Situated in the north-east of Morocco, Volubilis was once the capital of Mauritania, and from the 1st century A.D. also the westernmost Roman municipium. Subsequent transformation culminated in the splendour reached in the 3rd century, when the original fabric was completed with a series of splendid imperial architectures which ornamented the forum...

The triumphal arch of Caracalla in the Roman archaeological site of Volubilis dates back to 216 AD. It was built in a strategic position at the intersection of the main roads leading to the Forum, the decumanus maximus to the east and the roads from Porte à trios baies to the west, that almost certainly was the main gate to the city. The current ar...

The "history" of places exists as a stratification process of events that have occurred over time in a specific place, leaving more or less appreciable physical traces. The "memory" of the places, instead, is the result of a conscious choice of events to be handed down to future generations constructing the identity of a community and a recognisabl...

The survey of the Lastra a Signa city walls (built between the second half of 1300 and the first half of 1400) is the result of three different survey campaigns made in 2006-2007-2008 and of the following data processing carried out as part of a Master thesis. It is a paradigmatic example of the overcoming of the concept of "survey as a mere measur...

(M.B.) The paper deals with the methodologies and development of digital survey protocols and uses the Pulpit of the Cathedral of Pisa as the case study. The documentation project of the pergamum has forced to face the morphological complexity of this sculptured architecture: the wealth of decorations, sculptures, panels, columns and caryatids, whi...

Modern technologies used for architectural survey base their operation on the massive acquisition of measurements that are transmitted as point clouds; the development of the instruments allows to obtain a great density of information, such as to provide a realistic visualization of the architectures through the acquired database. The ability to na...

By the convention for the contribution to research, concerning the "survey and study of the seismic vulnerability of the school complex: Ghandi in via Pietro Nenni, known as" Maltagliata ", stipulated in February 2108 between the municipality of Pontedera and the University Architecture Department of the DiDA Studies of Florence, the project for th...

Built on the slopes of the Middle Atlas, Sefrou is one of the most typical and interesting north-eastern Moroccan cities and is located along the way that goes from Fez to the Atlas mountains. The city has hosted the bigger Jewish community in Morocco since 800 a.d., inside the Mellah. The ancient Medina, in the city centre, is sheltered by the def...

A dense point cloud can be defined as a “virtual" place where all the metric information of a survey is contained. However, the density of information also permits the morphology of the artefact to be observed. The rasterization of video images also has a communicative and evocative value. In this regard, both images produced to complete technical...

The church of Santa Maria A Buiano in Casentino. Survey, Archaeology and H-BIM analysis of the building The paper presents the results of the archaeological and H-BIM analysis conducted on the Pieve di Santa Maria a Buiano, near Poppi (Arezzo). The site is part of an academic project focused on the Casentino area, a territory rich in medieval build...

Abstract – The text takes into consideration the work of urban relief and diagnostic analysis, carried out on the area of Mellah destroyed by the flood of the 1955. The focus is on the processes of direct survey and photogrammetry that led to the final result and the technical characteris

Studies on the city of Poppi began in 2011 with the survey of the Conti Guidi Castle and continued until 2017 with the digital survey of the historic center. Created by the author with the Architectural Survey Laboratory of the Department of Architecture of the University of Florence, the surveys were used to deepen the methods of analysis and know...

The research is aimed at a new photogrammetric survey to tackle the restoration of the gravestones of the Pisa’s monumental cemetery. It is situated in “Piazza del Duomo” and it occupies the north side of the extensive complex. The architecture opens into the square with a large marble wall interpered with a series of blind arches. Inside, the buil...

The Pieve of San Michele Arcangelo in Metelliano is part of the the territory of Arezzo, in particular is located near Cortona, in the Val d'Esse, at the edge of the Chiana Valley. The eleventh century church, built in a phase immediately preceding to the full maturity of the Romanesque, was rebuilt by the architect Maginardo from Arezzo. The paper...

The town of Poppi as a case study to address the question of analysing historic centres in terms of their documentation, preservation and safety. The work was divided into three areas: the realization of a reliable survey, an appropriate reconstruction of the current state and the identification of the critical elements of the building fabric. The...

Piazza dei Miracoli in Pisa is one of the symbols of Italy’s artistic heritage and genius; it has inspired many travellers since the time of the “Grand Tour”, and continues to capture the attention of thousands of visitors today. The appeal of the great religious complex manages to capture not only the attention of an often distracted general publi...

In a continually changing world, subject areas related to representation are also affected by the development of representation technologies and perceptive theories so that it is now obsolete to speak of representation without also addressing the topics related to communication. This constant mutation induces a comparison with themes related to exp...

The Romanesque parish church San Pietro a Romena is located in the municipal district of Pratovecchio, in the Casentino valley. It was built, due to a inscription chiselled on a capital, in 1152 d.C. probably wanted by Matilde di Canossa, who has promoted the construction of a lot of churches in this area. We don’t have many informations about the...

Nel cuore della Castiglia, lungo il Cammino di Santiago, arrivando in un piccolo villaggio, si trova un edificio imponente: la Cattedrale di Santa Maria la Real a Sasamón. Il complesso in stile gotico si presenta con uno schema planimetrico piuttosto articolato, con chiesa a tre navate con sei cappelle. L'ultima campata e il grande transetto sono...

The survey project of the archaeological area of Pievea Socana, not far from Arezzo, in Tuscany conducted using laser scanner technology, set out to document the entire site, where an altar and the remains of an Etruscan temple were found, as well as the remains of two Christian churches and a Romanesque church built above them. The survey operatio...

The survey of the quadratura of the rooms in the ground floor apartments of Palazzo Pitti in Florence was conducted in two stages: the first in 2005, the second in 2007. In both cases acquisition techniques using laser scanner instruments and the relative reconstruction methods were tried out. The morphometric data was elaborated in steps – in the...

The survey of the quadratura of the rooms in the ground floor apartments of Palazzo Pitti in Florence was conducted in two stages: the first in 2005, the second in 2007. In both cases acquisition techniques using laser scanner instruments and the relative reconstruction methods were tried out. Specifically, in the 2005 survey conducted using a Leic...