The Life of Buildings

建筑物的寿命

• 批准号: AH/R009910/1
• 负责人: Richard Brook
• 金额: $ 6.89万
• 依托单位: Manchester Metropolitan University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FR009910%2F1
• 关键词: Life; Buildings

This idea centres on the digital preservation of the walls and rooms of our cities. Cities change, they have to, it's what they do. Without development cities are petrified, stultified and can become thematised versions of themselves. Development is not without its sensitivities and often involves passionate protest about preservation of buildings, vistas and space. The statutory listing process is frequently invoked in an attempt to prevent development. In some senses this may be construed as a misuse of legislation designed to preserve the best of our built heritage. Last minute attempts to save buildings under threat of demolition through listing often falter and a usual outcome is a clause in the planning approval that an archaeological record is made. This record may include a measured survey, a photographic survey and cursory written reports of the cultural history of the site. Three-dimensional surveys are frequently used only to produce two-dimensional records. Such records are hard to access and, in technological terms, are a limited means of representing lost artefacts. These records also fail to represent the cultural heritage value to the people and communities that experienced the buildings. Traditional archaeological reports are a poor vehicle for accessing the intangible heritage of place-based memories, stories and personal histories. Imagine being able to encounter a building on a street where the building no longer exists, but once stood. Imagine being able to enter that building and to walk through its spaces and hear the stories hidden in its walls. A 3D virtual model could contain surviving architectural drawings of the buildings, digitised from archive sources - a viewer could walk at a scale of 1:1 through the architectural drawings;. It could host still images embedded within the model; it could carry oral histories literally within its walls. This project imagines the creation of a model that can recreate a rich and layered version of a building and bring it to life through the collation of social, cultural, technical and visual archival sources. A building that becomes more than the sum of its parts and has more to impart than it ever did when it was 'alive'. The digital reproduction of three-dimensional space takes many characters and can be produced through a multitude of methods. Buildings can be modelled in detail exclusively in CAD software and rendered to produce highly realistic images; images of buildings can be mapped onto simple virtual 3D forms; multiple two-dimensional images can be interpreted by software to create 3D versions; laser scanning can produce materially rich representations of both exterior and interior environments. In this research we aim to investigate the range of methods to ascertain which might be the best in pursuit of our broader aim to produce virtual models of buildings that are also a repository for other cultural histories, such as oral testimony and memories. We are interested in the design, aesthetics and usability of such an interface and, as such, will carefully assess each existing method and its suitability for the onward development of mixed-reality experiences that are geo-located and can host other forms of media.As well as investigating a range of methods for the recording and reproduction of space the project seeks to draw together and represent existing archival records in a rich, contextualised and accessible format. With our project partners, The Modernist Society and Archives+ at Manchester Central Reference Library, we aim to realise proof of concept through the virtual reproduction of a synagogue currently scheduled for demolition as part of a new development in central Manchester. We will collate existing archival images, recordings and drawings as well as inviting new contributions from the public to share their memories and and artefacts related to the site.

这个想法的核心是对我们城市的墙壁和房间进行数字保存。城市在改变，他们必须改变，这就是他们所做的。如果没有发展，城市就会变得僵化、僵化，并可能成为自身的主题化版本。开发并非没有敏感性，并且常常涉及对保护建筑物、景观和空间的激烈抗议。法定的上市程序经常被援引以试图阻止发展。从某种意义上说，这可能被解释为滥用旨在保护我们最好的建筑遗产的立法。最后一刻通过挂牌来拯救面临拆除威胁的建筑物的尝试常常会失败，通常的结果是规划批准中的一项条款是进行考古记录。该记录可能包括测量调查、摄影调查和该地点文化历史的粗略书面报告。三维调查通常仅用于生成二维记录。这些记录很难获取，而且从技术角度来说，是代表丢失文物的有限手段。这些记录也无法代表体验这些建筑的人和社区的文化遗产价值。传统的考古报告对于获取基于地方的记忆、故事和个人历史等非物质遗产来说是一个糟糕的工具。想象一下，能够在街道上遇到一栋建筑物，该建筑物已不复存在，但曾经矗立着。想象一下能够进入该建筑并漫步其空间并聆听隐藏在其墙壁中的故事。 3D 虚拟模型可以包含现存的建筑物建筑图纸，这些建筑图纸是从档案来源数字化的 - 观看者可以以 1:1 的比例在建筑图纸中行走。它可以托管嵌入模型中的静态图像；它可以在其围墙内承载口述历史。该项目设想创建一个模型，可以重新创建丰富且分层的建筑版本，并通过社会、文化、技术和视觉档案资源的整理将其变为现实。这座建筑不仅仅是其各部分的总和，而且比它“活着”时能传递出更多的东西。三维空间的数字再现需要许多特征，并且可以通过多种方法来产生。建筑物可以专门在 CAD 软件中进行详细建模并渲染以生成高度逼真的图像；建筑物的图像可以映射到简单的虚拟 3D 形式；软件可以解释多个二维图像以创建 3D 版本；激光扫描可以生成外部和内部环境的物质丰富的表示。在这项研究中，我们的目的是调查一系列方法，以确定哪种方法可能是实现我们更广泛的目标的最佳方法，即生成建筑物的虚拟模型，这些模型也是其他文化历史的存储库，例如口头证词和记忆。我们对这种界面的设计、美观和可用性感兴趣，因此，将仔细评估每种现有方法及其对未来开发具有地理定位并可以承载其他形式媒体的混合现实体验的适用性。除了研究一系列空间记录和复制方法外，该项目还力求以丰富的、情境化的和易于理解的格式汇集并呈现现有的档案记录。我们与项目合作伙伴曼彻斯特中央参考图书馆的现代主义协会和 Archives+ 合作，旨在通过虚拟复制目前计划拆除的犹太教堂（作为曼彻斯特市中心新开发项目的一部分）来实现概念验证。我们将整理现有的档案图像、录音和图画，并邀请公众做出新的贡献，分享他们的记忆和与该遗址相关的文物。