ABSTRACT
The construction of Venezia station of Rome Line C underground is a significant engineering challenge in archaeological and monumental context making. The civil works will start with the excavation of the diaphragm walls - 85 meters in length – and thereafter the archaeological investigation will start until a depth of 15 meters before the realization of the cross walls to reduce the deformability effects. The complex geological context imposed the choice of the ground freezing technology for the tunnel excavation. Geotechnical and structural analyses have been developed to study the potential effects of the excavation on the monuments designing geotechnical and structural interventions for their protection. At the end of the excavation part of the archaeological structures discovered will be relocated in the atrium of the station that will represent an “unicum” with the museums of Venezia Palace, the Vittoriano and the Roman Forum.
