TY - JOUR
T1 - Re-printing architectural heritage
T2 - Exploring current 3D printing and scanning technologies
AU - Bekkering, Juliette
AU - Kuit, Barbara
AU - Hein, Carola
AU - Turrin, Michela
AU - Dik, Joris
AU - Hanna, John
AU - Alkadri, Miktha
AU - Așut, S.
AU - Knaack, Ulrich
AU - Koorstra, Peter
AU - More Authors, null
N1 - Energy Innovation #5: 4TU.BOUW Lighthouse projects + PDEng
ISBN 978-94-6366-246-8
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Additive Manufacturing (commonly known as 3D printing) technology has
become a global phenomenon. In the domain of heritage, 3D printing is
seen as a time and cost efficient method for restoring vulnerable
architectural structures. The technology can also provide an opportunity
to reproduce missing or destroyed cultural heritage, in the cases of
conflicts or environmental threats. This project takes the
Hippolytuskerk in the Dutch village of Middelstum, as a case study to
explore the limits of the existing technology, and the challenges of 3D
printing of cultural heritage. Architectural historians, modelling
experts, and industrial scientists from the universities of Delft and
Eindhoven have engaged with diverse aspects of 3D printing, to reproduce
a selected part of the 15th century church. This experimental project
has tested available technologies to reproduce a mural on a section of
one of the church’s vault with maximum possible fidelity to material,
colors and local microstructures. The project shows challenges and
opportunities of today’s technology for 3D printing in heritage, varying
from the incapability of the scanning technology to capture the
existing cracks in the required resolution, to the high costs of
speciality printing, and the limited possibilities for combining both
printing techniques for such a complex structure.
AB - Additive Manufacturing (commonly known as 3D printing) technology has
become a global phenomenon. In the domain of heritage, 3D printing is
seen as a time and cost efficient method for restoring vulnerable
architectural structures. The technology can also provide an opportunity
to reproduce missing or destroyed cultural heritage, in the cases of
conflicts or environmental threats. This project takes the
Hippolytuskerk in the Dutch village of Middelstum, as a case study to
explore the limits of the existing technology, and the challenges of 3D
printing of cultural heritage. Architectural historians, modelling
experts, and industrial scientists from the universities of Delft and
Eindhoven have engaged with diverse aspects of 3D printing, to reproduce
a selected part of the 15th century church. This experimental project
has tested available technologies to reproduce a mural on a section of
one of the church’s vault with maximum possible fidelity to material,
colors and local microstructures. The project shows challenges and
opportunities of today’s technology for 3D printing in heritage, varying
from the incapability of the scanning technology to capture the
existing cracks in the required resolution, to the high costs of
speciality printing, and the limited possibilities for combining both
printing techniques for such a complex structure.
KW - 3D printing
KW - 3D scanning
KW - heritage
KW - architecture
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85077716922&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.7480/spool.2019.2.4371
DO - 10.7480/spool.2019.2.4371
M3 - Article
SN - 2215-0897
VL - 6
SP - 33
EP - 36
JO - Spool
JF - Spool
IS - 2
ER -