Porta Nomentana Conservation

Since the earliest stages of its foundation, Rome has always adopted defensive means to prevent any form of invasion. They are not one single structure, but separate sets of walls that date back to various historical periods, built with different techniques, according to the weapons that were in use in those days.

The Aurelian Walls are the city walls built between 271 AD and 275 AD in Rome, during the reign of the Roman Emperor Aurelian. The walls take up a circular perimeter of roughly 19km, the longest in existence. The walls were designed to have a height of 8m, which today has doubled to 16m, with a depths of (thickness) 3.5m. Originally, the Aurelian Walls consisted of 383 towers, 7020 merlons, 5 minor gates, 116 toilets, 2066 great windows, 18 main gates. Typically, the distance between a tower and another measured 100 Roman Feet (equivalent to 29.6 cm).

Porta Nomentana is the focus of this conservation studio project.

Architectural Survey

An architectural survey was conducted using two different methods, the fisrt being photogrammetry (Agisoft Metashape) and the second being the direct survey method. The results are presented below.

Metrological Analysis

Masonry Analysis

Decay Analysis

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