Interactive Reconstruction of Damaged Historic Landmarks – Al-Qattanin Mosque in Mosul Old City as a Case Study

Abdulrahman, Raghad Akram; Al-Allaf, Emad Hani

doi:10.33899/rengj.2022.134720.1186

	Interactive Reconstruction of Damaged Historic Landmarks – Al-Qattanin Mosque in Mosul Old City as a Case Study
Al-Rafidain Engineering Journal (AREJ)
Article 3, Volume 28, Issue 1, March 2023, Pages 24-35 PDF (2.51 M)
Document Type: Research Paper
DOI: 10.33899/rengj.2022.134720.1186
Authors
Raghad Akram Abdulrahman^* ; Emad Hani Al-Allaf
Architecture Engineering Department, College of Engineering, University of Mosul, Mosul, Iraq
Abstract
The use of technology in the field of urban heritage has increased in recent times due to the possibilities that contribute to the management of conservation operations. The use of virtual reality systems is considered as one of the most important methods of digital preservation through the production of 3D models of historical buildings and then inserting them into interactive environments, such as the use of augmented reality systems, which allow the user to identify historical buildings through tablets and mobile devices to make them quickly and accessible. The research problem lies in the absence of studies on re-creating interactive models of historical buildings in Mosul old city. The current applied research aims to provide a working methodology to form an interactive model for a lost or damaged historical landmark through a methodology that works on collecting information sources on the damaged building and trying to rebuild it or recover the damaged parts of it by linking the information to produce a stereoscopic building , and then linking them to books and historical sources .So that the user can identify it with a three-dimensional model that appears on the screen of the mobile phone or tablet after making a digital scan of the relevant book page and using the Unite AR application.
Keywords
Augmented Reality AR; Architectural Heritage; Preservation; Damaged Heritage; Historical Monuments; Antique Mosul

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Interactive Reconstruction of Damaged Historic Landmarks – Al-Qattanin Mosque in Mosul Old City as a Case Study

[12] M. M. Rashid and K. Antlej, “Geospatial platforms and immersive tools for social cohesion: the 4D narrative of architecture of Australia’s Afghan cameleers,” Virtual Archaeology Review, vol. 11, no. 22, pp. 74–84, 2020, doi: 10.4995/var.2020.12230.

[22] C. Panou, L. Ragia, D. Dimelli, and K. Mania, “An architecture for mobile outdoors augmented reality for cultural heritage,” ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, vol. 7, no. 12, p. 463, 2018.