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Documentation is key in decision making for built heritage activities such as conservation, restoration, adaptive re-use, refurbishment and the longer-term maintenance-monitoring process. Through the production of records at different scales, projections and line, built heritage documentation seeks to provide transmission of accurate observation in a precise format by a repeatable method. By the end of this course, students should be able to:

• Assess and demonstrate the utility of visual and geometric information gathering for built heritage, following national and international standards on metric survey specifications, data capturing, processing and communication;
• Apply key definitions on digitalisation and guidelines in documentation, recording and information systems;
• Design and implement coherent strategies to accurately capture the geometry of built heritage;
• Design built heritage inventories and use databases and information systems, such as Geographic Information Systems;
• Communicate and present visual and geometric information gathered through built heritage documentation, recording and information systems;
• Create built heritage records for specific case studies.

Course material

Toledo (presentations, exercise data, free and open source software)
 

Content

ArchDoc is a one week intensive workshop on metric skill building which includes demonstrations and hands-on experience with a wide variety of surveying and documentation techniques to learn the utility and limits of 3D data for built heritage.

The student develops a practical approach to the use of tools and documentation techniques and gains hands-on experience in:

• Observation/ investigation/examination/analysis/measured sketching
• Architectural and panoramic photography for narrative
• Photography for scaling/rectification/SFM (Structure from Motion)
• RDM (Remote Distance Measurements – TS) understand scale, accuracy & precision
• Laser scan capture for 3D positioning
• Simple and cost-effective aerial photography / Aerial capture with SFM option
• Data processing in CAD/PhotoScan/ReCap/Cyclone/FaroScene/Metashape/ QGIS/PS/Gimp
• Communication: presentation at scale, understanding architectural form

The ArcDOC planning limits active data capture to 3 days, which sharpens decision-making on selection and method deployment. Students gain skill in abstraction and selection of diagnostic details in a spatial context.

Course material

Toledo (presentations, manuals, free and open source software)

Format: more information

ArchDOC (Architectural heritage DOCumentation for conservation) is a one week intensive on-site workshop, including introductory lectures, 3 days of fieldwork sessions and a final presentation prepared by students.

ArchDOC takes place in a historical building in Leuven, which is carefully selected to ensure the accessibility of the site – and also the relevance of the students’ work for the future of the buildings.

ArchDOC is organised in small interdisciplinary groups of students, who work in close collaboration with the teaching staff of the advanced master, as well as international visiting experts, the team of experts consists of:

• BELGIUM | KU Leuven (Master of Conservation of Monuments and Sites; the Geomatics and Surveying Division); Université de Liège
• CANADA |Carleton Immersive Media Studio (CIMS), Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering (Carleton University); Heritage Conservation Services (PWGSC)
• UK | Historic England
• GREECE | National Technical University of Athens
• ITALY | Politecnico di Milano; Politecnico di Torino