3D City Model of the Ancient Hue, Vietnam; Reconstruction of the City Environment for the Cultural Heritage Identity Con
To have a correct knowledge and codification of their historic-cultural heritage, various Asiatic countries today present common problems. In particular the most urgent need is that of analyzing the heritage in order to be able to protect it and show it t
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Polytechnic University of Marche, Department of Architecture Survey Drawing Urban Planning and History, Via Brecce Bianche 60100 Ancona 2 Hue College of Sciences, Department of Architecture, Nguyen Street, Hue, Vietnam {[email protected], [email protected]}
Abstract. To have a correct knowledge and codification of their historiccultural heritage, various Asiatic countries today present common problems. In particular the most urgent need is that of analyzing the heritage in order to be able to protect it and show it to better advantage without coming into conflict with the social transformations that are taking place in those countries. For this reason Virtual Reality is an instrument able to support this process. In the presented project the Italo-Vietnamese researching group has elaborated a 3D City Model of Hue, Vietnam. The object of this study is therefore an entire city that, in consideration of its existent cultural possessions, needed to undergo an all-over reconstruction in order to recreate a complete 3D environment. There are numerous possible applications from the model: Multimedia products, videos, render, together with a return of future projections of the city’s development and monitoring of the urban evolution. Keywords: Virtual environment, Cultural heritage defence.
1 Introduction The paper describes the stages of the realization of the 3D Virtual Model of the ancient city of Hue in Vietnam, carried out by the united Italo-Vietnamese staff. The city of Hue is characterized by the presence of an immense cultural heritage still very little known at an international level. Vietnam, the country into which the research has been inserted, appears to the researchers’ eyes as a country with new stimuli compared to the well-known European environments. In fact everybody knows that such a process of high economic growth and of social transformation, which is at present taking place in this country as in other Asian countries, may cause a rapid loss of the cultural roots of the population together with a loss of identity, especially among the new generations. In face of these types of problems common to the Last Developing Countries, Virtual Reality can play a fundamental role not only in reconstructing the image of the ancient environment and in witnessing it in the future, but also in supporting the choices of urban development that are at present taking T.G. Wyeld, S. Kenderdine, and M. Docherty (Eds.): VSMM 2007, LNCS 4820, pp. 13–23, 2008. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008
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F. Pugnaloni, G. Issini, and N.D. Minh
place. Starting from these general aims, research has verified that the documentary material of Hue’s cultural heritage was already present and plentiful, even if it is mainly made up of orthogonal projections. This material, still very precise, has not however the power of being visible, interactive and easily accessible for the local and also foreign users who want to learn more about this city. Therefore research has created a Virtual Model of the city of Hue, fusing in a un
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