Project facts
Duration:
2015-09-01 -
2018-02-28
Project coordinator: Politecnico di Milano
Project consortium: Newcastle University - Schools of Civil Engineering and Geosciences (UK); Salamanca University - Higher Polytechnic School of Avila (Spain); Stanislaw Staszic Scientific Association (Poland)
Funding bodies:
JPI CH
Subject areas:
Built Heritage, Urban Heritage, Archives, Monuments & sites, Cultural Landscapes, Conservation, Technologies/ scientific processes, Methods/procedures, Threats & changing environments
Budget: 740.377.00€
Presentation
- The CHT2 project aims to fully integrate the fourth dimension (4D) into Cultural Heritage studies for analyzing structures and landscapes through time.
- CHT2 will collect heterogeneous material (multi-temporal aerial and terrestrial photographs, maps, drawings, etc.) and combine it with contemporary 3D models.
- These geo-referenced and metric products will be the basis for quantitative analyses about territory transformations or architectural changes, visualization purposes, preservation policies, future planning, or possible business applications.
- To produce time-varying 3D products, from landscape to architectural scale, to envisage and analyze lost scenarios or visualize changes due to anthropic activities or intervention, pollution, wars, earthquake, or other natural hazards.
- The heterogeneous information necessary for the project’s accomplishment will be sought from national museums and archives with the support of the associate partners.
- A final project exhibition is planned to show the time-varying 3D products generated for different case studies.
Impacts & Results
- To support well-defined, interdisciplinary and collaborative R&D projects.
- To introduce the temporal dimension (4D) for studying, analyzing, preserving and communicating Cultural Heritage structures and landscapes through time.
- To maximize the value of research outcomes by promoting their transfer to individuals and organizations.
- To produce a replicable methodology and technology useful to researchers and non-academic stakeholders.
- To support a range of interactions and partnerships between Cultural Heritage researchers and a variety of user communities.
- To generate new and exciting knowledge exchange opportunities - ideas and possibilities for safeguarding and communicating heritage sites.
- To make 4D heritage sites easily accessible online and usable by a large community.
- To allow digital preservation and maintenance of our culture.
- To allow a better understanding of intangible expressions of our Cultural Heritage