Study and representation of the bastion of San Maurizio in Turin. An educational experience

This paper presents the activity carried out as part of the Ph.D. program in Architectural and Landscape Heritage at the Politecnico di Torino entitled “An Integral Approach to the Study of Fortifications”. A survey was conducted on a still-existing seventeenth-century portion of the fortifications of the city. The course included the organization of a survey campaign that integrated TLS and photogrammetric techniques, an interesting field of application concerning the operational difficulties derived from the steep terrain and the important vegetation presence, which guided the choices and programming of the work. The interpretation and analysis phases led to digital representations at different scales, including some focus on the wall face apparatus, mapping of degradations, and identification of the mean plane of masonry and its deviations.