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 Marco Tonelli San Pietro di Massa: immagini virtuali di una chiesa demolita nell'800 Università di Firenze, Italia 1999 In Piazza Aranci in Massa, a collapsed collegiate church was reconstructed in 1700 and then demolished a century later by order of the Napoleonic regime. The reconstruction developed naturally from surviving parts of the structure. The majority of the reconstruction work, however, was completed in libraries and archives which housed the descriptions and designs of the church. The obtained results were transferred without order or structure to a computer that served simply as an instrument not as an autonomous mechanism. The computer produced a type of visual representation necessary for this type of problem: a three-dimensional rendering and animation that restored the perception hypothesized actual proportions. The choice of carrying out the majority of the design by hand is based on the conviction that a computer cannot ever reproduce well that which was done by hand: the hand bends, moves, presses on the paper, not through coordinates, but through passion. In other words, that which is copied by hand is learned better; that is, the game that the decorator and planner intend to transmit is better understood, regardless of the artistic quality of the work. On the other hand, the virtual representation remains an essential contribution to the work. The city of Massa at the time it was chosen for the representation was very different from that of today. Thus, the perception of a contemporary pedestrian is a reproducible not only by still images, but also by the movement of the observer who, by becoming "virtual", can understand how differently life was conducted in that period. Marco Tonelli was born in Livorno, 22 May 1964, and currently he lives in Massa. In 1999, he completed his degree in architecture at the Universita di Firenze. He also currently works in an architecture studio in Forte dei Marmi. He is interested in graphic manual representation (design by freehand) as well as computerized representations. He works with Autocad, 3-D Studio 4 and Max, Photoshop and Corel Draw! as well as web pages. |
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