The Italian Mission in Peru (MIPE) has been working on the archaeological site of Chan Chan from 2002 in collaboration with the Ministerio de Cultura of Peru. Although it is inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List, Chan Chan is suffering from a structural deterioration due to its building technique (mud brick or adobe), but also from an equally dangerous degradation due to the rapid urban growth of the nearby town of Trujillo and to migratory movements, still difficult to control. In an attempt to stop the degradation of the complex, the Peruvian government, pressed by UNESCO, in 2000 approved the Plan Maestro de conservación y manejo del Complejo Arqueologico Chan Chan, redact by Instituto Nacional de Cultura, (today Ministerio de Cultura). The Plan Maestro has a number of projects and sub-projects aimed to enhancing the complex and its territory with the purpose of helping the socio - economic development of the population. The MIPE intends to support the actions foreseen by the Plan Maestro participating to its revision and updating and following three main objectives: the planning of the Archaeological Park of Chan Chan, the restoration and the virtual visit of Palacio Rivero and other peculiar architectonic typologies and the baking of local handicraft and tourism by mean of training courses arranged also with the help of the international cooperation. In order to achieve these objectives, taking into account the impressive dimension of the site, it was very important to take advantage of the potentiality of new methodologies of investigation: the remote sensing techniques and the ICT processes to organize and archive the geodatabase; the modern acquisition techniques, such as laser scanner, to arrange a 3D surveying, to reconstruct in virtual way the emergencies and by means other multimedia solutions to spread the whole site by virtual visits. In the paper, after a first part devoted to the description of the site, we will illustrate the work of the MIPE in relation to the above-listed objectives, describing the results achieved and the future prospects of research and planning.
Strategies and technologies for the knowledge, conservation and enhancement of a great historical settlement: Chan Chan, Perù,
F Colosi;R Gabrielli;R Orazi
2013
Abstract
The Italian Mission in Peru (MIPE) has been working on the archaeological site of Chan Chan from 2002 in collaboration with the Ministerio de Cultura of Peru. Although it is inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List, Chan Chan is suffering from a structural deterioration due to its building technique (mud brick or adobe), but also from an equally dangerous degradation due to the rapid urban growth of the nearby town of Trujillo and to migratory movements, still difficult to control. In an attempt to stop the degradation of the complex, the Peruvian government, pressed by UNESCO, in 2000 approved the Plan Maestro de conservación y manejo del Complejo Arqueologico Chan Chan, redact by Instituto Nacional de Cultura, (today Ministerio de Cultura). The Plan Maestro has a number of projects and sub-projects aimed to enhancing the complex and its territory with the purpose of helping the socio - economic development of the population. The MIPE intends to support the actions foreseen by the Plan Maestro participating to its revision and updating and following three main objectives: the planning of the Archaeological Park of Chan Chan, the restoration and the virtual visit of Palacio Rivero and other peculiar architectonic typologies and the baking of local handicraft and tourism by mean of training courses arranged also with the help of the international cooperation. In order to achieve these objectives, taking into account the impressive dimension of the site, it was very important to take advantage of the potentiality of new methodologies of investigation: the remote sensing techniques and the ICT processes to organize and archive the geodatabase; the modern acquisition techniques, such as laser scanner, to arrange a 3D surveying, to reconstruct in virtual way the emergencies and by means other multimedia solutions to spread the whole site by virtual visits. In the paper, after a first part devoted to the description of the site, we will illustrate the work of the MIPE in relation to the above-listed objectives, describing the results achieved and the future prospects of research and planning.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
