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Back in September we spent some time working with our colleagues on the About Houses project in the Friulian region of Italy. Part of the conference was a vist to the De Corte house in Ovasta, a small hillside village in Ovasta. This house has been owned by the same family since the 16th Century and is a fascinating mix of heritage and modern day living. We spent a day surveying with the laser scanner and panoramic camera, recording as much of the house as possible and below is some of the video we have produced from the laser scan data.

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We're holding the second project meeting for the houses project in Machynlleth on the 5ht April 2011. As part of this, we will have a one day conference on House heritage, with a diverse range of talks and discussion forums, ranging from Spanish architecture to heritage theatre, via slate miners, lead miners and the internet.

The full conference programme is here

Tags: Architecture | abouthouses.eu | RCAHMW | Heritage | 3D Laser scanning

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Big thanks to the team at the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales for a great 2 day Digital Past conference in Bodelwyddan, north Wales. Good to meet lots of people with a passion for Heritage and digital documentation.

Off to the Copper day in Swansea next month - sounds interesting for anyone in to industrial archaeology and social history. Makes a change from modelling dive support vessels, trawlers and Dutch barges for 7 days a week straight!

We've a 1 day mini conference on the Houses Project on April 5th, 2011 in Machynlleth for all interested parties. Final running list is still to be confirmed, but we definitely have a talk on the re construction of the Alhambra, Slate Miners housing in North Wales, Digital heritage and the People's collection, so there will be an interesting variety of professional development and local history interest.

If you're interested, please email, more details to follow on the programme.

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Tags: Digital Past | RCAHMW | 3D Laser scanning | Architecture | Heritage | abouthouses.eu

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I've spent the last few days in Ankara, Turkey, discussing a new European Commission project entitled "About Houses". Over the next 2 years we will be recording vernacular architecture in 7 partner countries across Europe and building an online training resource. DJA's role is to provide the technical knowledge on the recording of the houses and benchmark the records against some laser scan surveys. We've only just begun to get the website and content of the project sorted, but if you have an interest in heritage, old buildings, social history or would like to learn more about old houses across Europe, then please get in touch. I'll be blogging more about this project later and we'll be highlighting it to the press in the near future.

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Tags: 3D Laser scanning | Architecture | Heritage | abouthouses.eu

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Holly Lodge School, Smethwick, Birmingham, UK.

At short notice, we were asked to supply a basic model of an entire school campus to act as the starting point for some animation and visualisation images for a re-modelling exercise. Tasked with the project on Thursday afternoon, we completed the bulk of the 3D laser scanning over the weekend, to avoid interrupting classes and minimising health and safety issues. Some 38,000m² of site was covered, using the longer range Trimble to pick off larger facades and working with the faster Faro scanner to pick up the more complex areas.

This was processed using Pointools / Rhino, creating accurate geometry and then applying orthographic texture maps in Maya. This model was supplied to the clients some 5 days after being given the project (no, we didn't sleep much!). We also supplied a full photographic survey used to map on to our orthographic roughs to add greater detail to the model for rendering.

The video we created from the pointcloud and the base model is here.. and the PDF is here..

Tags: Architecture | visualisation | Animation | 3D Laser scanning