Rolando Volzone

@iscte-iul.pt

Department of Architecture and Urbanism - ISCTE-IUL
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa



                       

https://researchid.co/rolandovolzone

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Arts and Humanities

4

Scopus Publications

44

Scholar Citations

4

Scholar h-index

Scopus Publications

  • Toward the Reconstruction of Sacred Medieval Spatialities: Multiscale Analysis of the System of Eremitical Landscapes in Southern Portugal from Historical Records
    Rolando Volzone, João Luís Inglês Fontes, and Aurora da Conceição Parreira Carapinha
    Springer Science and Business Media LLC
    AbstractReconstruction of the landscape of late medieval southern Portugal is hampered by the scarceness of physical evidence after the subsequent centuries of evolution. The aim of this article is to understand how the spread of eremitical communities in this region interacted with the existing landscape, contributing to its transformation. A multiscale analysis is carried out through the examination of historical records containing scattered data about the landscape system. This methodology is applied to a specific case study, the Portuguese eremitical congregation of São Paulo da Serra de Ossa, in southern Portugal. Although fragmentary and dispersed, primary sources from between 1366 and 1578 are useful in reconstructing the components of this landscape. Initial results show the definition of a typical Mediterranean form of settlement: “agro-sylvo-pastoral.”

  • Smart Thinking on Co-Creation and Engagement: Searchlight on Underground Built Heritage
    Carlos Smaniotto Costa, Rolando Volzone, Tatiana Ruchinskaya, Maria del Carmen Solano Báez, Marluci Menezes, Müge Akkar Ercan, and Annalisa Rollandi
    MDPI AG
    This paper aims to explore public participation for activating underground built heritage (UBH). It describes and analyses practices of stakeholders’ engagement in different UBH assets, based on experiences gathered in the scope of the European COST Action ‘Underground4value’. It brings together five inspiring cases from Italy, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, in which digital and mobile technologies were used as tools to improve community experiences in UBH. Thus, the paper discusses ‘smartness’ from the perspective of people and communities around cultural assets, where ‘smartness’ becomes a new connotation and a pathway to advance (local) knowledge and know-how. Therefore, this paper takes on the challenge to define a smart city as an ecosystem for people’s empowerment and participation, and, in particular, to explore social tools for creating new values in heritage placemaking—where sharing knowledge becomes a fundamental principle.


  • The Portuguese eremitical Congregation of the Serra de Ossa: spatial analysis of the monastic settlements
    Rolando Volzone and João Luís Fontes
    Informa UK Limited
    ABSTRACT The Portuguese Eremitical Congregation of São Paulo in Serra de Ossa was founded in 1482, combining a large number of eremitical settlements – documented since 1366, mostly in the Alentejo region – under a centralized government. In 1578, an autonomous congregation was set up, and became then affiliated with the Hungarian Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit. Their settlements were turned into monasteries, most of them only extinct due to the decree of dissolution of the religious orders in 1834. This article attempts to fill in the gaps found in the material study of the Congregation’s settlements; the authors have carried out an examination of the seventeen examples – sometimes just traces – through a literature review, an archival dataset, on-site morphological and spatial analyses, with a focus on two case studies: Santa Cruz de Rio Mourinho and Nossa Senhora da Consolação de Alferrara. This preliminary survey shows continuities in the communities’ choices of location, the strategy of occupation, the architectural morphology features. The study aims to contribute to the diffusion of information about this monastic network, and to the creation of protective policies in relation to this cultural heritage, since all these monasteries have lost their original function and values.

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • FONTES, Joo Lus Ingls–Gnese e institucionalizao de uma experincia eremtica: da “pobre vida” congregao da Serra de Ossa (1366-1510)
    R Volzone
    Lusitania Sacra, 255-257 2023

  • Toward the reconstruction of sacred medieval spatialities: Multiscale analysis of the system of eremitical landscapes in southern Portugal from historical records
    R Volzone, JLI Fontes, A da Conceio Parreira Carapinha
    Historical Archaeology 57 (2), 764-787 2023

  • Correction to: Reuse of Unoccupied Religious Monuments for Tourist Accommodation: Santa Maria da nsua (North of Portugal)
    R Volzone, S Genin, J Estvo, M Patuleia
    Placemaking and Cultural Landscapes, C1-C1 2023

  • Reuse of Unoccupied Religious Monuments for Tourist Accommodation: Santa Maria da nsua (North of Portugal)
    R Volzone, S Genin, J Estvo, M Patuleia
    Placemaking and Cultural Landscapes, 317-334 2023

  • Smart thinking on co-creation and engagement: Searchlight on underground built heritage
    C Smaniotto Costa, R Volzone, T Ruchinskaya, MC Solano Bez, ...
    Smart Cities 6 (1), 392-409 2023

  • Architectures of the soul. Religious heritage: understanding the past, shaping the future
    R Volzone, JL Fontes, J Ruivo
    4th International Conference: Architectures of the Soul. Religious Heritage 2023

  • 7 Edio do Workshop Dinmicas Socioeconmicas e Territoriais Contemporneas: Rumos da Investigao num Mundo em Transformao. Livro de Resumos
    A Oliveira, ME Gonalves, R Volzone, N Bento
    DINMIA'CET-Iscte 2023

  • Documentation, understanding and enhancement of Cultural Heritage through integrated digital survey: nsua fort in Caminha (Portugal)
    R Volzone, P Becherini, A Cottini
    DEFENSIVE ARCHITECTURE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN, 1171 2023

  • The Legacy of Franciscan Observance Convents in Portugal: Overview of Their Reuse Towards Sustainable Development
    R Volzone, S Genin
    Regenerating Cultural Religious Heritage: Intercultural Dialogue on Places 2022

  • Integration of knowledge-based documentation methodologies and digital information for the study of religious complex heritage sites in the south of Portugal
    R Volzone, O Niglio, P Becherini
    Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage 24, e00208 2022

  • Relatrio Cientfico referente ao apoio “Vero com cincia” Lisboa, ISCTE–1 de Agosto de 2022 a 30 de Setembro de 2022
    R Volzone, E Tomaz
     2022

  • Paisagens ps-conventuais: reutilizao do patrimnio, sustentabilidade e resilincia rural
    R Volzone
     2022

  • A 3D model for architectural analysis, using aerial photogrammetry, for the digital documentation of the convent of Santa Maria da nsua, on the northern border between
    R Volzone, P Becherini
     2022

  • F-ATLAS| Franciscan Landscapes between Italy, Portugal and Spain
    R Volzone, S Genin
     2022

  • The impact of water level changing in the Franciscan heritage located in coastal areas and river banks in Portugal: perspectives and challenges
    S Genin, R Volzone
     2022

  • A 3D model for architectural analysis, using aerial photogrammetry, for the digital documentation of the convent of Santa Maria da nsua, on the northern border between
    A Cottini, P Becherini, R Volzone
    Drones. System of Information on culTural hEritage for a spatial and social 2022

  • Integrated 3D survey of the first Franciscan observance settlement in Portugal: The convent of Santa Maria de Mosteir in Valena (Alto Minho, North of Portugal)
    R Volzone, R Ferretti
    Architectures of the soul: Diachronic and multidisciplinary readings 2022

  • Architectures of the soul: diachronic and multidisciplinary readings
    R Volzone, JL Fontes
    3rd International Seminar Architectures of the Soul 2022

  • From eremitical to monastic settlements, from rural towards urban areas: the spatial evolution of the Portuguese eremitical congregation of So Paulo da Serra de Ossa
    R Volzone, JL Fontes
    Architectures of the soul: Multidisciplinary approaches to the experiences 2022

  • Architectures of the soul: multidisciplinary approaches to the experiences and landscapes of seclusion and solitude
    R Volzone, JL Fontes, D Martins
    Universidade Catlica Portuguesa 2022

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • A 3D model for architectural analysis, using aerial photogrammetry, for the digital documentation of the convent of Santa Maria da nsua, on the northern border between
    A Cottini, P Becherini, R Volzone
    Drones. System of Information on culTural hEritage for a spatial and social 2022
    Citations: 8

  • Integration of knowledge-based documentation methodologies and digital information for the study of religious complex heritage sites in the south of Portugal
    R Volzone, O Niglio, P Becherini
    Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage 24, e00208 2022
    Citations: 7

  • Introduction
    WH Morris-Jones
     1978
    Citations: 5

  • The Portuguese eremitical Congregation of the Serra de Ossa: spatial analysis of the monastic settlements
    R Volzone, JL Fontes
    Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies 12 (1), 84-105 2020
    Citations: 4

  • Os eremitas da pobre vida e a construo da paisagem da Serra de Ossa
    R Volzone
    I Colquio Ibrico de Paisagem-O estudo e a construo da Paisagem como 2017
    Citations: 4

  • Smart thinking on co-creation and engagement: Searchlight on underground built heritage
    C Smaniotto Costa, R Volzone, T Ruchinskaya, MC Solano Bez, ...
    Smart Cities 6 (1), 392-409 2023
    Citations: 2

  • Architecture of the Soul: Legacy of the eremitical congregation of So Paulo da Serra de Ossa (Portugal)
    R Volzone
     2020
    Citations: 2

  • The Church of St. George in the Kyrenia Castle in the North of the Island of Cyprus: Bringing out the Shape of Architecture
    R Volzone, M Bigongiari, F Cioli
    CHNT 23-23rd International Conference on Cultural Heritage and New 2018
    Citations: 2

  • Il rilievo della Certosa di Firenze. Catalogazione e analisi delle celle del chiostro grande per la gestione e la valorizzazione del complesso certosino
    F Picchio, F Cioli, R Volzone
    ReUso 2018. L'intreccio dei saperi per rispettare il passato, interpretare 2018
    Citations: 2

  • Architectures of the Soul
    RL VoLzone, JL Fontes
    Diachronic
    Citations: 2

  • 7 Edio do Workshop Dinmicas Socioeconmicas e Territoriais Contemporneas: Rumos da Investigao num Mundo em Transformao. Livro de Resumos
    A Oliveira, ME Gonalves, R Volzone, N Bento
    DINMIA'CET-Iscte 2023
    Citations: 1

  • Architectures of the soul: multidisciplinary approaches to the experiences and landscapes of seclusion and solitude
    R Volzone, JL Fontes, D Martins
    Universidade Catlica Portuguesa 2022
    Citations: 1

  • REGENERATING CULTURAL RELIGIOUS HERITAGE. Intercultural Dialogue on Places of Religion and Rituals.
    O Niglio
    SPRINGER NATURE 1, 1-320 2022
    Citations: 1

  • Digital Survey in Religious Architecture. Methodologies for the studying of two monasteries in Alentejo region close to the UNESCO Heritage Site of vora (Portugal)
    S Bertocci, M Bigongiari, M Pivetta, F Cioli, P Becherini, R Volzone
    Il Simposio UID di internazionalizzazione della ricerca. Patrimoni culturali 2019
    Citations: 1

  • La documentazione digitale dell’antico monastero di Santa Catarina de Montemuro della congregazione eremitica di So Paulo da Serra de Ossa (vora, Portugal)
    R Volzone, M Bigongiari, F Cioli, P Becherini
    ReUso Matera. Patrimoni in divenire. Conoscere, valorizzare, abitare, 1297-1308 2019
    Citations: 1

  • The church of St. George in the Kyrenia castle in North Cyprus: Bringing out the shape of architecture
    R Volzone, F Cioli, M Bigongiari
    The church of St. George in the Kyrenia castle in North Cyprus: Bringing out 2018
    Citations: 1