Superimposition of the Basilica The Trajan Puzzle Project Ulpia next to the Museums of Imperial Fora, floor plan of the museum, and photograph from the excavation with the “Nerva” head fragment & museum storage photos. An Exercise in Design Thinking 2. Our solution centers around a Legionnare’s path through the Maurizio Forte PhD, Julia Liu, Nevio Danelon PhD, Adam Spring PhD, Todd Berreth museum space. It touches upon many of the 40,000 architectural fragments Department of Classical Studies; Art, Art History and Visual Studies stored in the museum archives and Special thanks: Museums of Imperial Fora involves digital techniques to produce Lucrezia Ungaro PhD Marina Milella PhD Archival photography analogue outcomes offering narrative, Bass Connections tangible, sustainable, multilayered for photogrammetric analysis and blueprints individual and collective experiences. from Andrea Carandini’s “Atlante di Roma Antica”. Renderings of Hologram 3. The exhibits include a full table, Anamorphic room anamorphic installation installation, and TITA 4. The Emperor Trajan had an immense based on the principle that (Tangible Interactive Table for Archaeology.) and rich life, his conquests took Rome to 2. Ideate different perspectives offer new its peak of expansion and his construction autostereoscopic viewpoints; an projects provided for infrastructure & Collate holographic display providing innovation and development which context to frieze fragments transcended time and place. Our exhibit throughout the basilica; and a draws on the rich story of his life and times tangible table by which users to offer new perspectives, intimate and are encouraged to play with an sociological, on history, culture, and our archaeologists puzzle, which collective human experience. fragments belong where?
3. Build & Prototype 1. 2017 is the 1900th deathday anniversary of the Emperor Trajan. The Museums of Imperial Fora in Rome commissioned our Duke Dig@lab to produce a permanent exhibit for the general public around fragments from the Basilica Ulpia (the largest basilica of the ancient world.) 3D Mesh generated from photogrammetric data of the “Nerva” head 1. Define & fragment and drawing of the Sphinx Frieze through Empathize comparative research of similar contemporaneous sculpture, (ie Griffon Frieze of the Trajan Fora and the Lanuvium Sphinx at the British Museum.
A view from the Museums of Imperial Fora. All that remains of 4. Iterate & Trajan’s magnificent fora Implement are ruins and the Trajan’s Column on the left.
The Emperor Trajan and the Digital modeling and Museums of Imperial Fora. sculpting work in progress The museum is situated and prototypes via Autocad, in the heart of Rome and Z-brush and 3DS Max. has an average of 100,000 (Architectural rendering visitors of all ages and by N. Danelon, Figurative nationalities per year. rendering by J. Liu.)
(4) Throughout 2016 and 2017, our team designed and built mulitple prototypes of different materials, (Re)iterate sizes, even concepts to hone in on feasibility and sustainability of ideas and implementation. 3d Print and global illumination of “Nerva” head and Basilica Ulpia interior.