Experiments in Axonometric : Cemetery Chapel.

First of a series of studies incorporating photogrammetrically scanned elements with digital models. The axonometric study will focus on defining the process of the architecture and the interrelations of the defined elements.

The scanner produces a digital representation of the physical building, using the physical architecture as the direct fiducial reference. The construct(or) occupies both digital and physical space in relation to the building, opening up possibilities for new interpretations and inhabitations of the physical architecture in a hybrid reality of both digital and physical.

The construct(or) employs a plethora of advanced technologies, particularly in an augmented reality setting and the use of 3D printing techniques allow for it to both manipulate and alter itself in real-time. Historic sources and situations can be compiled and reveal unseen elements and past states of the building, whilst the architecture of construction promotes an interrogation of the fabric and allows for new types of occupancy in the structure.

The architecture is thus a mediation site, where new ideas and interactions with the historic building are generated freely. It focusses not so much on what the building is, but what it could be.

Fig.1: Axonometric study of the Edgerton Cemetery chapel, now dis-used and falling into disrepair. It documents the process of the urban scanner and constructor in relation to the existing architecture.

Fig.2: Colour study of the same axonometric.