Papers by Keyword: Historical Architectural Heritage

Abstract: The main approaches currently used for digital preservation of historical architecture heritage are 3D scanning. These approaches have successfully realized the acquirement of 3D shapes of architectural heritages. But due to some critical constrains, they still cannot provide enough support for recording high quality color and texture information so far. In the mean time, large amount of information of point cloud acquired by 3D scanning also create big challenges for data processing and digital content utilization. We adopted an entirely new ways and techniques in the process of digital preservation of ancient buildings in Foshan Ancestral Temple & Donghuali area, which employed High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI), panoramic imaging, photogrammetry measurement to record geometry information together with accurate color texture information of cultural heritage. In addition, some practical applications of digital content were also carried out, which shows a promising future of our methods.

Abstract: Architectural heritage is a resource and a fundamental part of the cultural European background; it also causes concern, due to the huge investment needed to maintain it, or even to repair it after environmental injuries. The Author is general coordinator of an Italian National research project aimed to formulate new guidelines for structural health monitoring and survey of historical and monumental structures. The Project programme traces a general strategy to build maintenance related monitoring procedures, to face the problems of data uncertainties, to propose robust approaches. This paper shows the general path traced for that project, just now at its start-up phase, but the main attention is addressed to the robust approaches to dynamic testing and model updating.