Digital Heritage
2018年2月25日[日]–30日[水]、2019年2月6日[水]–5月21日[火]
Period: 25 – 30 February 2018, 6 February – 21 May 2019
Venue: KYOTO Design Lab, Kyoto Institute of Technology

Workshop Brief
In this workshop, a team of Japanese and American students will record buildings and different types of environments in detail to express them as a 3D image such as photogrammetry and 360-degree video. This is part of a class held in the winter semester of MIT. Japanese students will also participate in some of their classes through Skype, turn in assignments, and present their outcomes in class. Participants will form groups with MIT students.
If you choose to, you can go to MIT and take their class as well. At the moment, we are planning a trip to MIT either in March or May. However, any fee regarding the trip needs to be accommodated by the participants themselves.
During the workshop, each team will research Kyoto in the first 3 days to pick a specific target and use the last 2 days to record it in detail. The final outcomes will be presented on the last day of class in MIT. As you can tell from how World Heritage sites are booming lately, local traditional architecture is coming into the spotlight as a new resource for tourism and cultural promotion businesses. In this workshop, we will learn how to record such architecture using various digital techniques, how to turn these recordings into 3D model data and panorama video data, and how to create interactive exhibits listed below using 3D printer, Augmented Reality, and Virtual Reality.

-Modeling using photogrammetry software
-Recording with a drone
-Filming a panorama video
-Manipulation of interactive contents using game engine
-AR/VR

Workshop leader
Associate Professor Takehiko Nagakura [Director, Computation Group, MIT]

Takehiko Nagakura is an architect from Tokyo. At MIT, he teaches courses related computer-aided design, and his research focuses on the representation and computation of architectural space and formal design knowledge. He has founded and led Architecture, Representation and Computation group (ARC) since 1996. His built projects include Gushikawa Orchid Center (SD Review Award 1998 and Nikkei New Office Award 1999). His a key advisory member for Arcbazar.com, an online competition platform created to democratize architectural design process through crowdsourcing.
At MIT, Nagakura’s academic research focuses on the computational representation of architectural space and formal design knowledge. Inspired by the perspective apparatus Albrecht Durer documented in 1525, Nagakura invented a series of patented interactive visualization device, Digitarama, Deskrama and their augmented reality cousin, Multirama AR. His recent research on digital heritage uses photogrammetric modeling, panoramic videos, game engine, and drones to capture important architectural heritage such as the villas of Andrea Palladio and represent them in a novel interactive format. He heads the project UNBUILT, with research scientist Kent Larson, in which his team has developed computer graphics walk-through visualization of significant early modern unbuilt projects, including Le Corbusier’s Palace of Soviet, Giuseppe Terragni’s Danteum, and Tatlin’s Tower for the Third International. Its outcome has been exhibited in At the End of Century Exhibition in Tokyo Contemporary Art Museum in 1998, Museum of Contemporary Art at Los Angeles in 2000, and other architectural exhibitions in the world.
Before coming to MIT in 1993, Nagakura worked for Fumihiko Maki in Tokyo, and was an instructor at Harvard University, Graduate School of Design. He earned Bachelor of Engineering in Architecture from Tokyo University in 1985, Master of Architecture from Harvard University in 1987, and Master of Engineering in Architecture from Tokyo University in 1988. He completed his PhD at Harvard in 1996, with a dissertation that proposed a computable paradigm for developing designs through recognition of architectural forms and transformations in drawings, and its software implementation is under way.