Event

Jan 17, 2023
3D Modeling

Our speaker is Dr. Di Luo, Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies at Connecticut College. The following is an abstract of her talk: Over the past two decades, 3D photogrammetry has complemented traditional measurement tools and survey methods in the fields of archaeology and architectural history. 

Its application in the study of Chinese wooden architecture and Buddhist heritage sites, for instance, is further combined with VR/AR technologies and provides researchers and non-specialists refreshing ways of documenting and experiencing architectural spaces. While these digital models have entered classrooms, labs, and museums, it remains to be tested how photogrammetry functions as a new methodological

approach and produces new knowledge. Focusing on the “domes of heaven” of Buddhist architecture in China and Central Asia, this talk questions how photogrammetric modeling enhances architectural research. First of all, digital modeling requires for the storage and delivery of visual information and data in 3D, which presents a challenge to traditional print media and calls for alternative platforms of academic publication. 

Second, in contrast to analog drawings and reconstruction models, photogrammetry captures the very moment the space is observed on spot, not an idealized “blueprint” of the built environment. It documents the “end product” in all its imperfections in reality and enables the “reverse design” of architecture. More important is the light and movement in space, which are essential qualities of a religious space but often neglected by scholars because they are rarely representable by still images. Finally, despite the power of photogrammetry, what it offers is still a “filtered reality” that is always decontextualized and missing critical environmental/peripheral data. Digital modeling cannot replace the actual encounter; however, it does expose the flaws in our habitual ways of looking and affords unexpected views and angles into an architectural space.

 

 

2023-01-17T12:00:00SAVE IN I-CAL 2023-01-17 12:00:00 2023-01-17 13:30:00 3D Modeling Our speaker is Dr. Di Luo, Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies at Connecticut College. The following is an abstract of her talk: Over the past two decades, 3D photogrammetry has complemented traditional measurement tools and survey methods in the fields of archaeology and architectural history.  Its application in the study of Chinese wooden architecture and Buddhist heritage sites, for instance, is further combined with VR/AR technologies and provides researchers and non-specialists refreshing ways of documenting and experiencing architectural spaces. While these digital models have entered classrooms, labs, and museums, it remains to be tested how photogrammetry functions as a new methodological approach and produces new knowledge. Focusing on the “domes of heaven” of Buddhist architecture in China and Central Asia, this talk questions how photogrammetric modeling enhances architectural research. First of all, digital modeling requires for the storage and delivery of visual information and data in 3D, which presents a challenge to traditional print media and calls for alternative platforms of academic publication.  Second, in contrast to analog drawings and reconstruction models, photogrammetry captures the very moment the space is observed on spot, not an idealized “blueprint” of the built environment. It documents the “end product” in all its imperfections in reality and enables the “reverse design” of architecture. More important is the light and movement in space, which are essential qualities of a religious space but often neglected by scholars because they are rarely representable by still images. Finally, despite the power of photogrammetry, what it offers is still a “filtered reality” that is always decontextualized and missing critical environmental/peripheral data. Digital modeling cannot replace the actual encounter; however, it does expose the flaws in our habitual ways of looking and affords unexpected views and angles into an architectural space.     Kim Pham Kim Pham Europe/Berlin public