Project description
Data and 3D reconstruction to understand Roman port cities
During the Roman Imperial period, Mediterranean port cities served as crucial transit hubs and vibrant centres for urban and cultural life. These cities boasted comprehensive features, with their aesthetic and monumental characteristics prominently highlighted in iconography. Past research has evaluated the documentary value of iconographic evidence in comprehending Roman portscapes by juxtaposing them with archaeological and textual data. The MSCA-funded UrbaPort project will generate virtual reconstructions of Roman port cities. This involves the integration of iconographic evidence with advanced computational methods, such as 3D modelling and smart generative techniques. The aim is to gain insights into the urban and architectural layouts of these cities and contextualise maritime activities within their architectural framework.
Objective
Under the Roman Imperial period, Mediterranean port cities were not only transit hubs - where ships, people and goods both departed and arrived - but also places of urban and cultural life developing away from the seafront. They formed a real urban landscape with enough characteristics of complete cities whose aesthetic and monumental features were widely emphasised in iconography. Although these highly codified images are not snapshots of reality, previous doctoral research assessed the documentary value of iconographic evidence for understanding Roman portscapes by inevitably confronting them with archaeological and textual data. UrbaPort (Exploring the Urbanism of Roman Mediterranean Ports: from iconographic data to 3D reconstruction) is an interdisciplinary project that aims to understand the urban and architectural morphology of Roman maritime port cities and to propose reliable virtual reconstructions of these environments. To achieve this goal, UrbaPort will propose an innovative reflection that will consider how iconographic evidence could be integrated to the digital tools for expanding the scientific value of historical restitutions in order to replace maritime activities in their architectural context. UrbaPort will bring together an unprecedented combination of advanced computational methods – 3D modelling and smart generative methods – developed by the CNRS/MC MAP-Aria laboratory (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Lyon) with the recent archaeological data conducted at Portus – the port of the Imperial Rome – by the Ecole française de Rome in the perspective of a virtual exhibition at the Archaeological Park of Ostia antica.
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinator
00186 Roma
Italy