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

Heritage Sites
are at Risk

The Challenge:
Capture & Preserve

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Architecture
=
Human Experience

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

Photo: Grufnik via Flickr

Photo: hoxtonboy via Flickr

The
story
of our
lives
Photo: thepollen via Flickr

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

Our design heritage is
disappearing

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

Galveston Arts Center

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

China’s Forbidden City

Bamyian Budda
Destroyed by Taliban 2001

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

How can we
protect
these assets?

We could take pictures...

I know...letʼs use a laser

Why use
a laser?

It measures EVERY detail

You get a
complete
“picture” of the design

Everything is presented in 3D

Itʼs FAST

Your Laser Scanning Glossary

Point Cloud

Photo or Point Cloud?

3D Rendering

It works inside and outside

Finally, capture
street scapes

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

Digital Documentation is NOW possible!

It never hurts to have a
little insurance.

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

Scan Now.
Process Later.

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

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

Isnʼt that the
point?

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