Architectural History following a methodology of Reverse Engineering Reading hidden codes of Roman Architecture

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25303025
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Architectural history/Design
• Research Institution: Kyushu University
• Principal Investigator: HORI Yoshiki 九州大学, 人間・環境学研究科(研究院), 教授 (20294655)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): Ikeguchi Mamoru 久留米大学, 文学部, 准教授 (20469399)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): Toyota Koji 上智大学, 文学部, 教授 (20112162) ; Kato Masue 立教大学, 文学部, 准教授 (40422521)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: ポンペイ / ヘルクラネウム / オスティア / レーザー・スキャニング / リバースエンジニアリング / モザイク / 交通規制

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project was aimed at confronting: the analysis of Roman cities and buildings without prior suppositions applying laser scanning technology as below.
1) Reconsruction of upper strcutures and floors: The walls of the House of Painted Vaults at Ostia that partition the ground and first floors are not aligned with each other. This fact is in itself enough to doubt the uniformity of the whole structure. 2) Spatial structures adound the floor mosaics: The mosaics of the Insula of Muse could have spatial relationships with the walls of the rooms they belonged. Their layout could link and visualize areas connected in function. 3) Traffic system of Roman cities; regulartion ond safety of urban life: In Pompeii, a two-way traffic was impossible except for limited arteries. The ruts remaining on the streets, which can provide the direction of the vehicles, reveal that carts were driven on the centre of the streets in both directions.

Free Research Field

西洋建築・都市史