Aerial Digital Photogrammetry and Terrestrial Laser Scanning for Reconstruction Hypothesis of Monumental Building Lost Façades: The Case of Villa Mondragone

Abstract

The analysis of an historical building requires the fundamental acquisi- tion of metrics data, iconographic and archival documents followed by an accurate interpretation of the collected information. The aim of this methodology is to give a precise critical interpretation of the architecture as close as possible to reality, such as to allow a reconstruction of those characteristic that have been irremediably altered over time. This paper, in particular, explains the philological reconstruction of two facades of Villa Mondragone, lost during some huge functional rehabilita- tion of the building, obtained with the support of advanced methodology of indirect survey (terrestrial laser scanning and aerial digital photogrammetry).