3D surveys and virtual explorations in the places of remembrance: The chapel of monte dei Poveri in Naples

Abstract

This paper shows the results of a research carried out on religious architectural monuments in some areas of the historical centre of Naples and consists of an accurate census, cataloguing and mapping, in addition to the survey and representation of many churches and small chapels which ceased to be places of worship many years ago. The resulting data gave rise to an unprecedented documentation, made of traditional and laser scanner surveys, by providing the formal and historical architectural values of each artifact, with different degrees of analysis, from the metric and material determination up to the state of conservation, the decay of surfaces and the structural verification. The paper is aimed at showing and documenting particularly the survey carried out on the Chapel of Monte dei Poveri in Naples.