Abstract
Chinese classical garden rockeries have rich historical and cultural value, as they are a part of China’s cultural heritage. In recent years, while the digital research of rockeries has increased, most of it is limited to a rockery’s digital record. However, other issues have not been thoroughly discussed, such as how to digitally protect a rockery, activate it as an immovable, solid site heritage by digital means, and transform its function. To ensure the effectiveness of rockery data, this paper compares the advantages and disadvantages of digitally mapping the Huanxiu Shanzhuang rockery, which was conducted by the team at an early stage, to a convenient and accurate digital rockery data acquisition scheme that was used for the Zhanyuan South Rockery, as an example of carrying out three-dimensional digital mapping. Furthermore, from the perspective of the sustainable development of cultural heritage, this study attempts to print Chinese classical garden rockeries in three dimensions to realize their physical representation. This paper aims to provide a new way to activate, restore, and protect rockeries.
Highlights
As a solid heritage site, the Chinese classical garden rockery was systematically introduced by Murck and Fong as early as 1980 [1]
Data merging The hand-held GeoSLAM ZEB HORIZON 3D scanner is primarily responsible for gathering field data in narrow areas that cannot be scanned by the Trimble TX8
Increasingly, attention has been paid to digital cultural heritage and the digital research of Chinese classical garden rockeries
Summary
As a solid heritage site, the Chinese classical garden rockery was systematically introduced by Murck and Fong as early as 1980 [1]. The heritage and cultural value of rockeries have been fully discussed all over the world. With the wide application of 3D scanning technology in the field of cultural heritage [7,8,9], some scholars have made attempts to use 3D digital technology to map and record rockeries. Since Chinese classical garden rockeries are part of China’s cultural heritage, they belong to the category of a cultural landscape. The protection and research of rockeries need to be based on the World Heritage Committee’s concept of a cultural landscape. According to the definition in UNESCO’s 2013 edition of the guidelines for implementing the World Heritage
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