Archeologia urbana a Catania. Il progetto OpenCity

The Pompeii Sustainable Preservation Project, which includes the IBAM contribution, is an international research project entirely based on fundraising, which aims to create new restoration and conservation strategies within the sphere of Cultural Heritage, with particular attention to the problems presented by archaeological structures, in terms of the conservation of mate- rials, analysis of the walls and layers of facings. The necropolis at Porta Nocera has been chosen as the project's study area. The main aim of the activities undertaken by the IBAM Laboratory of Immersive and Multimedia Archaeology was the creation of an innovative system for representing reality, combining the scientific rigour and precision of traditional instrumental mapping, with the use of new technologies. The final product takes the form of a digital model of the entire necropolis area, perfectly recreated and explorable in three dimensions, capable of storing all types of information independently of its different multimedia format.