Rilievo tridimensionale del palazzo fortificato di Entella

Entella is a city of ancient Sicily, whose ruins rise on the summit plateau of the homonymous Rocca. The typological complexity and the architectural and volumetric articulation of the imposing structure of the medieval castle - one among the most important testimonies found in the intramural area of the Rocca, definable from comparison to different scales (territorial, urban, architectural and detail) - have oriented this research towards a synergistic integration of different methodologies of survey: with 3D laser scanner, to obtain a three-dimensional metric model; with GPS, for the recording of scans and the definition of a topographic framework; with direct survey, for the verifications of parts and components. The main objective of this complex operation was to obtain a first and complete three-dimensional relief of the archaeological evidence belonging to the fortified palace, whose only knowledge was entrusted exclusively to two-dimensional planimetric representations (with a low scale of detail) and to partial sections obtained returning the data received from various manual survey campaigns.