Virtual Reality Models for the Structural Assessment of Architectural Heritage Buildings

Modelling Virtual Heritage Environments using Hierarchy-Embedded Virtual Objects

“…It is crucial to preserve, conserve and maintain the heritage for the purposes of structural assessment of architectural heritage buildings [8], formative educational experience [6] and inheritance for the present and future generations. All these purposes need to be performed because the heritage is eventually inexistence, inaccessible and design decision [2].…”

“…This effort can be seen through the studied researches and created VR applications called Virtual Heritage (VH) including for structural assessment [8]; for reconstruction of monuments [15]; for reconstruction of total physical loss of the monument [16]; for recreating a loss human environment [17]; for immersion in a computer-generated world [18]; for presenting and monitoring the structural changes through time [19]; for creating the sense of place in VHE [7]; for studying users requirements in VR for architectural heritage learning [20]; and the last but not least for measuring user experience in VE [21]. The researches have been carried out due to the difficulty of interpreting the numerical models for visualization of VH [8], requirements of return to the site to re-measure, re-photograph and re-record for accuracy of the created VH [2] and the incompatibility of user interaction and difficulty to trigger the sense of place in VH [7]. VH refers to the use of computer-based interactive technologies to record, preserve or recreate artefacts, sites and actors of historic, artistic, religious and cultural significance.…”