ASINOU UNESCO WHL Monument - Holistic Documentation

Описание: This videoclip aims to present a novel holistic documentation approach, which has been implemented for the reconstruction (reverse engineering) of the UNESCO WHL ASINOU monument http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/351/. The presented demonstration followed the proposed MNEMOSYNE concept and approach, which has been extended, so that the monument is now visible at the CY national aggregator and on Europeana. All the related metadata have been converted to EDM and harvested to the EU digital library on Cultural Heritage (www.europeana.eu). This is the first time that a UNESCO WHL monument is fully documented and available as an HBIM record on Europeana.
The detail 2D and 3D documentation of the ASINOU interior (frescos) and it’s processing for the pilot HBIM online platform system was one of the greatest challenges in this project. It precisely followed special protocol developed among the CUT scientists and our partner Z+F GmbH in Germany, which was responsible for the 3D Laser data acquisition, the monument’s owner and the local stakeholders responsible for its preservation. Therefore, this special set of guidelines has been extended, so that the unique interior frescos of the monument can be scanned in a high quality resolution and according to the local curators’ regulations and ethical guidelines.
The most advanced technology on the market has been employed for the 2D & 3D digitalisation. The corresponding data processing and 3D modelling has been implemented by using Autodesk Revit 2019, which is one of the most commonly used software in the area of Architecture and in general in the BIM industry. The produced 2D drawings, the 3D model, as well as other products, such as the 3D replica of the monument have an accuracy on the mm level, which supports that our chosen methodology for digitalisation and modelling was correct.
In cooperation with the archaeologists’, civil and chemical engineers’ of the Department of Antiquities, the owner of the monument and historians, a detail investigation followed for the most important materials of the monument, the structural analysis, as well as, for the detail description and interpretation of all the frescos. This unique methodology was the first ever used on a monument in Cyprus and for an UNESCO WHL monument. All these results in multimedia form are available on the INCEPTION platform and on the archive of the project.