Architekturtechnik

Abstrakt

Photogrammetry and Reconstruction of Memory Memories of Heritage Buildings: The Case of As-Salt City

Ahmad F Jobran

This paper aims to show the potential of combining photogrammetry and gamification with extensive interviews to document and preserve the memories of heritage buildings. The project was carried out with the Title "The living frame" in 2022 in the city of As-Salt, Jordan, with the aim of creating a local narrative of the city's architecture and culture. Using photogrammetry and gamification, we were able to invoke the memories of old residents and seniors, as they got to View, experience, and relive moments from their past when presented with a detailed virtual walkthrough of their old houses and public buildings, regardless of their current location. Most seniors moved out of their old houses due to changes in their economic status, family size, job necessities, and other conditions. Other buildings, such as schools and public centres, are deserted due to changes in standards and regulations, deterioration of their physical state, and various other reasons. The memories and stories regarding these buildings are still an essential part of the city's intangible heritage that must be documented, or it will be lost. Through these extensive interviews, seniors describe in detail their memories and lifestyle within the older buildings while virtually walking through the scanned models, remembering certain events in their different spaces. These memories and stories are directly synchronized with the scanned architectural data creating a new layer of information that would not have been possible otherwise. The lifestyle Layer shows us how these buildings shaped and got shaped by the everyday usage of the locals, the significance and function of specific details within them, and the connections they had with different cities and communities. These memories are later overlapped with other people's memories from the same area extracting a shared history and narrative that could be considered the Architectural/Cultural narrative of that time.