Radosveta KIROVA
(Institute of Art Studies, BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria)
Keywords: heritage documentation and protection, laser scanninng, dron photodocumentation, digital restauration
Abstract:
Investigation of the early ottoman tower situated in the small village of Teshovo near the Bulgarian-Greek border by the means of innovative digital methods and is a part of the PhD thesis research of the author about the medieval and ottoman residential towers in Bulgaria in the context of the Balkans.
The paper illustrates the process of research and making of architectural documentation of the object involving digital methods due to some architectural and urban situation characteristics of the object, as well as its specifics of physical condition, time framework and permission restrictions.
Key study results include a 3d laser scanning model, 3d mapping model and digital prefabrication model of the tower.
The paper aims to represent implementation of methods as laser scanning, drone photography, photographical 3d mapping, digital restoration and digital fabrication. The significance of application of these methods for heritage documentation for hardly accessible objects as well the advantages of combining several of these methods for obtaining better and much detailed results in general are discussed.
As a conclusion on the basis of the case study potential of digital methods and their combination in heritage documentation and perspective of their implementation in different stages of the process of heritage protection are marked.