CREATING AND UTILIZING METHOD OF DETAILED DIGITAL ARCHIVE FOR ARCHITECTURE

Abstract

In the movement of making digital archives of cultural assets, you can see the similar approaches in the architectural field. Most of these are simply creating computer graphics of outside appearance, few are precisely digitizing inside mechanism. Considering academic significance, the latter are more valuable than the former. Precisely detailed digital archive includes huge amount of three-dimensional geometric data, illustration and commentary, so that it requires sophisticated system for managing data consistency.
The authors customized a commercial 3D CAD system to interactively communicate with a backend relational database system which stores various building information. In this paper, the authors propose brand-new digital-archive method using the "CAD w/ DB" system.