The aim of our project is to document and study _Insula_ V 1 bordering against two of the most important arteries of the town. To broaden the accessibility of our work, the intension is to publish all the material in an open access base accessed through the project’s web-site: pompejiprojektet.se/insula.php. Mainly through the study of the standing structures, we have been able to establish the chronological framework for the development of the block. The material record reveals that in _Insula_ 1, the step from sporadic building to comprehensive urban construction occurred in the middle of the 2nd century BC. Investigation of the architectural remains indicates that urbanization advanced from the south towards north, beginning with the property facing Via di Nola. Later development in the block shows a merging of properties into larger houses as well as an increased number of shops. This growth seems to have gone hand-in-hand with municipal innovations and improvements in the infrastructure from 80 BC and forth: the stone paving of Via Vesuvio and the aqueduct. Traces of the earthquake in AD 62 vary from property to property. They are seen most clearly in the _Casa di Caecilius Iucundus_, which provided several exceptional finds (found in 1875), for example, the famous shop archives whose entries stop in just that year, and the altar relief which shows damaged architecture in Pompeii\'s forum. The large area under investigation in the project permits us to employ an approach based on quantitative and comparative study, which in turn allow us both to use and to take directions beyond the traditional methods in Pompeian research, namely, chronology, decoration and architectural history. One important result is the discovery of material evidence that permits us to follow social dependencies through time. Another concerns the relationship between the nature of private space and the expansion of the municipal infrastructures such as streets and water distribution. Knowledge gained from our work in the northern part of the block allowed us to direct the investigations towards specific results in the southern part. In the original urbanization phase a series of different types of domestic buildings was erected here: a large house, a smaller one and several shops. They were all constructed on the same foundation and should thus be seen as a part of the same initiative. The system of water pipes was laid much later but the fact that it was shared by the buildings indicates a continued communalism over time. Excess water from the fountains and pools of the stately dwelling were recycled to neighboring workshops. In the town’s last period the full row of shops and workshops was given a thorough modernization, including well-built sanitary installations in some. The find of early Bronze Age levels and a contemporaneous ash layer witnessing a volcanic eruption was the unexpected outcome of the clearing of a well. It was followed by a deep dig into Vicolo delle Nozze d’Argento.

_Field work in Insula V 1 in 2011_ The fieldwork 2011 took place from start of September till middle of October. There were two main interests for this campaign. The first one was to continue with the documentation and study of the tabernae and smaller entities in the Insula V 1. The second one was a testing of a laser 3 – D scanning in different kinds of rooms in two of the larger houses. The documentation and study of the tabernae and other smaller entities in the Insula V 1 concerned some of the entities opening up to either of the two city arteries running along the Insula, i.e. the via di Vesuvio and the via di Nola. Both the walls and the floors of V 1,1.32, V 1,2, V 1,8, V 1,17, V 1,19, V 1,29 were thoroughly studied and documented. Besides the important documentation, the aims were also to investigate the functions of the different entities and their relations to the larger houses dominating the Insula. Thus both in V 1,8 and in V 1,17 remains of constructed working structures were uncovered, which clearly hints towards some kind of productive activity in these entities, where as for example in v 1,19 and V 1,29 no such remains or even indications for them could be observed. This could indicate, that these entities were used for selling goods, that had been produced elsewhere or that possible structures were constructed of non – durable materials. Concerning the relationships, not only doors or upper floors were used as indicators, but also the joint use of water and waste water installations were studied. For the analysis of the relationships between smaller entities and the dominant houses remains of upper floors and doorways were studied with the aim to determine whether these entities had communicated between themselves. This could then determine a plausible joint ownership in accordance with our knowledge of rules for parceling in the ancient Roman world. A further plausible indicator for close relations could be established through the study of the joint using of water resources. It could be observed in several entities that pure overflow water was led further to other entities, where it was stores in cisterns. The laser scanning was made for several reasons: to test the method in itself, to test the capacity of the equipment in the different scaled Pompeian rooms and to provide our project with the ground material for 3 – D models, both of the actual state and as virtual models of some of the houses. This work was carried out as cooperation between scholars from the Lund University Humanities Lab and from the Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione “A. Faedo” at Pisa. The speed of the work exceeded our expectations by far, so that the entire houses V 1,23,26 (House of Caecilius Iucundus) and V 1,7 (House of the bronze Bull), 45 rooms in total together with the appending tabernae, facades and street rooms, could be documented in that way during one week of field work.