Abstract
Abstract. The use of digital documentation techniques has led to an increase in opportunities for using documentation data for valorization purposes, in addition to technical purposes. Likewise, building information models (BIMs) made from these data sets hold valuable information that can be as effective for public education as it is for rehabilitation. A BIM can reveal the elements of a building, as well as the different stages of a building over time. Valorizing this information increases the possibility for public engagement and interest in a heritage place. Digital data sets were leveraged by the Carleton Immersive Media Studio (CIMS) for parts of a virtual tour of the Senate of Canada. For the tour, workflows involving four different programs were explored to determine an efficient and effective way to leverage the existing documentation data to create informative and visually enticing animations for public dissemination: Autodesk Revit, Enscape, Autodesk 3ds Max, and Bentley Pointools. The explored workflows involve animations of point clouds, BIMs, and a combination of the two.
Highlights
1.1 BackgroundDigital documentation of heritage places is important for technical applications
Two animations were made from the existing data for the first release of the Senate Virtual Tour: the introductory animation that takes the user through a point cloud and inside the Centre Block, and an animation of the Senate chamber ceiling that combines a point cloud with the Building Information Models (BIMs)
The animations in the Senate tour required high quality renderings of the BIM and point clouds, which eliminated it as a possible option
Summary
Digital documentation of heritage places is important for technical applications Techniques such as laser scanning and photogrammetry provide records of a building at a specific moment in time and are useful tools in the conservation and rehabilitation of these places. The data can be used to create visual content for different digital storytelling applications These applications can increase public engagement with a heritage place and make the place accessible to people around the world who cannot physically visit it. The valorization of cultural heritage through virtual tours and exhibits will likely lead to more visitors to that place (Ciurea and Filip, 2016). This can contribute to the economic development of the site and local area
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