This presentation describes the threats to historic architecture and heritage sites around the world. A new technology, 3D laser scanning, is digitally capturing and documenting the historic architecture at these sites for future generations.

1. Digital Documentation:
How to Ensure
Your Historic Site is
Preserved for Generations
Steve Gordon, President, GlobalMind

2. Heritage Sites
are at Risk

3. The Challenge:
Capture & Preserve

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5. Architecture
=
Human Experience

6. “The mother art is
architecture.
Without an architecture of our
own we have no soul
of our own
Frank Lloyd Wright civilization”

7. Photo: Grufnik via Flickr

8. Photo: hoxtonboy via Flickr

9. The
story
of our
lives
Photo: thepollen via Flickr

10. “Design is the
fundamental soul
of a man made creation.”
--Steve Jobs

11. Our design heritage is
disappearing

12. The Basilica of Santa Maria di
Collemaggio destroyed, April 6, 2009
Photo: Vitturini-Schiazza/European Pressphoto Agency

13. Galveston Arts Center

14. 1800-2000
31-inches
2010-2100
35-inches
Photo: It's Flavinsky via Flickr

15. China’s Forbidden City

16. Bamyian Budda
Destroyed by Taliban 2001

17. If architecture is our
soul, infused into the
environment...

18. How can we
protect
these assets?

19. We could take pictures...

20. I know...letʼs use a laser

21. Why use
a laser?

22. It measures EVERY detail

23. You get a
complete
“picture” of the design

24. Everything is presented in 3D

25. Itʼs FAST

26. Your Laser Scanning Glossary

27. Point Cloud

30. Photo or Point Cloud?

31. 3D Rendering

32. It works inside and outside

33. Finally, capture
street scapes

34. View the video at
http://bit.ly/tisCN

39. Digital Documentation is NOW possible!

40. It never hurts to have a
little insurance.

41. Itʼs as effective on
small sites
as it is on BIG sites

42. Scan Now.
Process Later.

43. It gives your patrons
a new way to
experience
your site...

44. ...and helps you
tell your story
to a wider audience

45. Isnʼt that the
point?

46. More information and resources:
squidoo.com/preservearchitecture
sgordon@1globalmind.com
@steve_gordon