Dr Maurice Murphy PhD, MPhil, Member of the Chartered
Association of Building Engineers, is a lecturer and researcher in building
conservation and computer graphics in the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT).
With over 30 years’ experience in building surveying and conservation, he has
led and participated in a number of EU programmes in the area of Digital
Cultural Heritage.
Maurice will be at Digital Past 2016 talking about Historic
Building Information Modelling (HBIM), a process which consists of surveying
existing structures using remote sensing followed by the mapping of parametric
and information rich objects onto a geometric framework based on the survey
data. The parametric objects which represent the architectural elements are
built using a geometric descriptive language and are based on historic
architectural documents (architectural rules and shape grammars). In addition
these rules and
grammars are exploited to procedurally model parts
of the structures to speed up and
automate parts of the process. The resultant HBIM can then be used for
automatically producing conservation documentation and analysis of historic
structures in addition to visualisation.
The project to develop this prototype recording and
documenting system will be explained through the case studies of work on the
Four Courts and Henrietta Street in Dublin City. These historical, classical
buildings will provide examples of how this project creates a system for the conservation,
maintenance and management of historic properties.
