Ricerc@Sapienza

The wooden model of the Flavian Amphitheater built by Carlo Lucangeli between 1790 and 1812 is among the largest and most detailed ever made on the subject. Unlike the coeval models, normally made of cork and retracting the building to a state of ruin, the Lucangeli wooden Coliseum, divided into seventy distinct sections, is an interpretation of the ideal form of the monument, extremely detailed and expressive thanks to the use of different wood essences and accessory materials, such as metal and putty.

Physical models have always been the most exhaustive and suggestive documents to transmit and understand the morphological characteristics of an architectural subject and reveal their state of knowledge in a given period.

The protection of historical monuments from road and subway traffic vibrations is an important responsibility for the administrations of many cities. The structural health of monuments is threatened both by the effects of short-term vibrations due to construction activities and by the consequences of long-term vibrations induced by vehicles and subways. The most important historical constructions are often endowed with monitoring systems to measure and analyze these effects.