Open to Ridicule – Deploying Plaything Technology for 3D Modelling of Urban Informal Settlements in Asia
Joerg Rekittke, Yazid Ninsalam, Philip Paar · Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia · 2013
As technology affine urban landscape researchers,working in Asian mega cities, we roam through crowded and narrow, widely informal city layouts, where we apply digitalfieldwork equipment and conduct design work. We use low cost cameras and camera drones, tools that had been developed asgadgets for outdoor freaks or plaything for nerds. In this paper, we describe recent advances in the development of amethod of on-site data and image gathering, which allows the processing of concrete 3D models of informal city spaces. Thevisual quality of these models is still moderate, but the resulting three-dimensional spatial puzzlemakes a widelyinaccessible and undocumented piece of city terrain visible, understandable and designable. The software used is free.