PresWoodenHeritage · Preserving Wooden Heritage. Methods for monitoring wooden structures: 3D laser scanner survey and application of BIM systems on point cloud models
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2017-06-01 → 2019-10-07
- EU contribution
- €179,326
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- MSCA-IF-EF-ST
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Results in brief
Preserving Wooden Heritage. Methods for monitoring wooden structures: 3D laser scanner survey and application of BIM systems on point cloud models
The wooden architectural heritage is today an object of growing interest in scientific research, even on international scale. This can be seen not only from the architectural point of view but also from the angle of the theoretical approaches. Yet the state of the art concerning the Wooden Heritage in Europe is unfortunately not encouraging or supporting any scientific approach for preservation nor restoration activities – due to the unsystematic or totally lacking documentation. However, the consciousness of the importance of wooden architecture has improved, but still there are too many anthropological and sociological factors, which are compromising the preservation of wooden architecture. For this reason, one of the main objectives and task of the project has been to carry out urgent survey and to catalogue this vast and unique wooden world heritage. Fires and abandonment for negligence are the main factors that are jeopardizing the preservation of this architecture. According to the theoretical preface, Preserving Wooden Heritage has investigated theoretical and practical methods in order to keep and preserve wooden architecture starting by the analysis and study of the Finnish Wooden Architecture. The overall objectives involve the development of systematic, specific and technical procedures of interventions based on scientific and digital survey, 2D/3D representations for interdisciplinary purposes and outputs such as for diagnostic analysis and cataloging of the elements with census activities for the elaboration of digital inventories. Even if the application of the analysis and of digital processes focus on timber architecture, methods and procedures are described by using a wider point of view extended to the general sphere of the documentation of architecture through the latest digital systems. The results obtained have been very satisfactory producing information with very high metric reliability. The investigation on the chosen case studies has explored environmental, urban and building scales, deepening the applicability of certain procedures of investigation on both historic and modern Nordic Heritage.
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Project objective
Wooden Heritage has been recognized today as an object of growing interest in scientific research even on international scale, not only from the architectural point of view but also from theoretical approaches. Over the times many technological systems concerning timber have evolved, refined and defined in the use of mixed solutions. Wooden Architecture represents one of the oldest building systems adopted by the majority of people who developed construction techniques respecting the local traditions. Today this vast and unique wooden heritage needs urgently survey and cataloguing. Fires and abandonment are the main factors jeopardizing the preservation of this architecture; every year too many wooden buildings still disappear because of this negligence. This important challenge has the purpose to obtain new technical methods, procedures and protocols that don’t exist yet, fundamental for technicians and operators. The research project wants to address a new scientific approach on wooden buildings. This is aimed for practical interventions for with respect to the scientific and epistemic foundations, by improving 3D laser scanner survey and photo-modelling activities through post production phases with parameterization of the point cloud to create 3D digital models queried and enriched by informative content and increase BIM (Building Information Modeling) knowledge. The main and most important contribution of this project is the accomplishment of scientific, technical and operational systems and tools for the documentation of wooden structures. During the process of analysis different experts belonging from the best host companies chosen, will guide, check and develop jointly with the applicant all the methods, procedures and theoretical background for achieving the best results in a successful project. In this way the triangle Research-Theory-Practice will offer new insights to timber architecture, to the preservation and maintenance of the wooden heritage.
Original text from CORDIS.
Participants
- OULUN YLIOPISTO · OuluCoordinatorFinland
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