The series of international workshops in Acre aim to acquaint the participants and the residents of Acre with cultural architectural sites of the old city. During the workshops, chosen sites will be documented and presented in architectural drawings, as well as three-dimensional models.

 

Throughout the workshops participants will be divided in two groups which will collaborate. One group will focus on documentation of historical buildings and the second group will focus on urban museology and design intervention of the historical urban fabric.

 

The documentation group will acquire technical knowledge on today’s methodologies of documentation and historical knowledge on the old city of Acre and on the specific sites they will be dealing with. The digital documentation of the chosen sites will be executed through the use of 3D laser scanning and photogrammetry. The participants will be shown the methodology and strategies related to the acquisition and management of three-dimensional data from the site. Further, during the workshop, the possibilities of using acquired data for the construction of two-dimensional drawings and three-dimensional models will be explained. Last, the workshops will close with an exhibition that represents the documentation and the history of the sites which were studied during the workshop. The exhibition will be open to the residents and community of Acre.

 

The urban museology group will analyze the urban fabric with its historical buildings and will explore design interventions that transform the city into an open museum.

 

The 2 groups will exchange knowledge and information so that the end results of the workshop will contain information and knowledge acquired in both groups.

 

The workplace for the workshops will be the historical building of the International Conservation Center – Città di Roma in Acre. The event will be organized in collaboration with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura - Haifa. The participants will take an active part both in collecting the information on-site and in the post-processing the cloud of points, extracting architectural drawings as well as participating in a design intervention proposal.

 

For more information on all cultural heritage documentation activities of Shenkar:  http://shenkardocumentation.wix.com/messada