Cento City Hall

Cento City Hall (Residenza Municipale) was built from 1612 until the mid-18th century and, since 1830, has undergone numerous restoration works. The building has considerable artistic value and is protected by the Italian Code of Cultural Heritage and Landscape.

The interventions were needed to repair the damage caused by the May 2012 earthquake and to improve the structural behaviour of the building under seismic actions, reducing its vulnerability, which is inherently high in historic buildings of this kind.

The design involved the use of 3D laser-scanning technology, which makes it possible to digitally capture the position and geometry of the area. With this technology, the geometric information is far more meaningful and valuable than that of photographic mapping, as it reproduces the topology of the surveyed area with extreme accuracy and in three dimensions.

ASDEA used this technology together with drone survey techniques, processing the point clouds and orthophotos generated so as to return all measurements and volumes with great precision.