{"id":1750,"date":"2015-10-20T04:04:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T08:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/temp-real\/2015\/10\/20\/on-points\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T17:47:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T22:47:32","slug":"on-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/real\/2015\/10\/20\/on-points\/","title":{"rendered":"On Points"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>On Points:\u00a0Stitching Architectural Surfaces in The City<\/h3>\n<h5>Genome of the Built Environment: Measuring the Unseen, Spring 2016, Harvard GSD<\/h5>\n<h5>Teachers: Allen Sayegh, Stefano Andreani<\/h5>\n<h5>Student:\u00a0Zeina Koreitem<\/h5>\n<p>Buildings, cities, environments are increasingly being seen, documented, visualized. 3D scanning, a technique that thus\u00a0far has been reserved to specific industries and professions\u2013\u2013such as preservation and infrastructural surveying (or more\u00a0recently to hobbiyests\/object scanning\u2013\u2013is relatively neglected as a potential tool for architectural and experiential\u00a0representation. Scanning is particularly interesting due to its capacity to generate different methods of spatial\u00a0representations all at once: projective geometry, orthographic projection, perspective, photography, imaging etc. thus\u00a0collapsing them into a single paradigm.<\/p>\n<p>Two common forms of scanning are explored: Methods of point scanning which involve laser construction and\u00a0methods of image stitching, such as photogrammetry and structured light scanning. The first method translates clusters\u00a0of points, known as point cloud, which are plotted in space using a three dimensional coordinate system and where every\u00a0point contains XYZ coordinates, an RGB value, and a time stamp, and together they generate the reconstructed form of\u00a0the external surfaces of objects. The photogrammetric and stereo methods generally employ a minimum of two images\u00a0of the same static scene or object acquired from different points of view. Common points are then identified and\u00a0measured and the three dimensional coordinates of the object are deduced through triangulation.<\/p>\n<p>Perversely, the aim of this project is to incorporate these forms of visualizations in the aesthetic discourse of architecture\u00a0as a way to highlight the seen rather than the unseen. An experiment and tool that allows for an ironically superficial\u00a0reading of the city. A form of flatness with depth.\u00a0The methodology of this project involve a range of experimentations unfolding in three parts. Computational tools were\u00a0developed to isolate the different components of the scanned information, XYZ coordinates and distance information\u00a0(point cloud), RGB data, viewing planes. These layers of data are then appropriated and processed as means of\u00a0intervention. Taxonomies of images exhausting facades of buildings in Somerville and near the GSD are compiled. 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