WTC2019
Tunnels and Underground Cities:
Engineering and Innovation meet
Archaeology, Architecture and Art
Engineering
The Neapolitan Subsoil
All the natural deposits within the depths of interest, are geologically recent and were formed in a relatively short per...
Innovation
Architecture in A High-Tech Underground Structure Design
During the design of a typical modern metro, engineering aspects prevail since undergro...
Archaeology
Tunnelling meets history. History meets tunnels
Naples underground hides an ancient city. During the Greek and Roman periods a labyrinth of tunn...
Architecture
Another dimension of landscaping
Concerning the public open spaces, the digging of underground tunnels became step by step the conception, liter...
Art
The five stations of the Metro line 1 (Museo, Piazza Dante, Salvator Rosa, Materdei and Piazza Quattro Giornate) have been designed by the architec...