Digital archives and study of historical towns

The basic aim of this work is to create a multimedia data-base (an electronic-graphical system containing dimensional, qualitative and graphical data) and to make data available on the Internet as their representation evolves.. The theme of the work is thus on the one hand the study of harbour towns and the identification of the system of historical architectures that represented the physical place that connected historical town and harbour area, and on the other the survey of the structures and services that link the sea to the town and the hinterland. The study documents the type of harbour (shaped by geographical constraints), its distinctive architectural features, and the mode of expansion of the town in relation to this water-covered area, which cannot be landscaped in the same way as dry land. The outcome of the analysis has been the identification with an interesting range of architectural events related to the individual town-harbour apparatuses.