A research project supported by TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey)

 

Project number: 119K896, 2020-2023.

When documenting architectural heritage, it is possible to obtain rapid and detailed measurements with contemporary imaging techniques and to create numerical models based on that data. However, these models, even with their high resolution, do not yet contain information on constructional components that are individually defined and related to each other in the original building. We aim to further develop computational methods by which we can distinguish parts such as bricks and other building components in point cloud data from a selection of masonry brick walls and domes in Anatolian architectural heritage, and to automatically transfer these components to historical building information models. In this way, we wish to minimize any loss of knowledge on what kind of construction processes match the form. as well as to document the material and constructional features important for the restoration and conservation of heritage.