International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume XL-5/W2, 2013 
XXIV International CIPA Symposium, 2 — 6 September 2013, Strasbourg, France 
DOCUMENTING A COMPLEX MODERN HERITAGE BUILDING USING MULTI 
IMAGE CLOSE RANGE PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND 
3D LASER SCANNED POINT CLOUDS 
Maria Lucia Vianna Baptista 
Documenta Fotogrametria Arquitetural 
www.documenta-mlvb.com 
maluvbb@gmail.com 
Commission V, WG V/2 
KEY WORDS: Modern Heritage Buildings, Architectural survey for Restoration, Building pathology Mapping, 3D Laser scanning 
and Architectural Photogrammetry, Docomomo 
ABSTRACT: 
Integrating different technologies and expertises help fill gaps when optimizing documentation of complex buildings. Described 
below is the process used in the first part of a restoration project, the architectural survey of Theatre Guaira Cultural Centre in 
Curitiba, Brazil. To diminish time on fieldwork, the two-person-field-survey team had to juggle, during three days, the continuous 
artistic activities and performers’ intense schedule. Both technologies (high definition laser scanning and close-range 
photogrammetry) were used to record all details in the least amount of time without disturbing the artists’ rehearsals and 
performances. Laser Scanning was ideal to record the monumental stage structure with all of its existing platforms, light fixtures, 
scenery walls and curtains. Although scanned with high-definition, parts of the exterior facades were also recorded using Close 
Range Photogrammetry. Tiny cracks on the marble plaques and mosaic tiles, not visible in the point clouds, were then able to be 
precisely documented in order to create the exterior facades textures and damages mapping drawings. The combination of 
technologies and the expertise of service providers, knowing how and what to document, and what to deliver to the client, enabled 
maximum benefits to the following restoration project. 
designated heritage building in 2003 as one of the first Modern 
1. HERITAGE BUILDINGS X MODERN Architecture buildings in the State of Paraná. With insufficient 
ARCHITECTURE maintenance for many years, the building today is in precarious 
and outdated conditions to proper function as an important Arts 
Our tangible cultural heritage (buildings, monuments, and Entertainment Centre. After continuous requests from the 
landscapes, books, works of art, and artefacts) is defined as artistic community and the civil society, a bid for a restoration 
having architectural, historical and artistic significance. In the and theatre modernization project was authorized in 2012. 
last century, in some developing countries the word "progress" 
was associated with demolishing the old to construct new 2. ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR 
structures. Following the above definition, some buildings were LASER SCANNING? 
not old enough to be considered “heritage”, and many unique 
examples were lost. In 1988 two Dutch architects initiated a Close Range Photogrammetry was considered for many 
non-profit organization called DOCOMOMO International decades as the most impressive technology to precisely 
(International Committee for Documentation and Conservation document a building. Expensive equipment restricted its use 
of buildings, sites and neighbourhoods of the Modern mainly to Universities and Government Institutions. Although 
Movement) being one of its missions to create global awareness showing many advantages for documenting and surveying 
in recognizing modern architecture buildings as part of cultural buildings, few Architectural Schools had and many still don't 
heritage. At present it has more than 2300 interdisciplinary have this discipline on their regular curriculum. 
members from all over the World. Photogrammetry was mostly known by cartographers and 
engineers, and usually most used for mapping purposes. 
In 1948, in Curitiba, South of Brazil, a Cultural Complex 
project was commissioned to Engineer-Architect Rubens When laser scanning took the central stage in the first years of 
Meister (1922-2009). Construction began in 1952, occupying XXI century, many thought that Close Range Photogrammetry 
an area of approximately 16,900 m? in the city centre. The days were over. Some people took sides, and finally got to a 
Complex construction took two decades. Inauguration of the common sense that there is room for everyone. Each 
Theatre Guaira in April 1971 was postponed when, a few weeks technology has advantages above the other, and the use of both 
before its opening day, an arson fire consumed the brand new together is what is needed to do a more precise and detailed 
Big Auditorium, only to re-open on December 1974. The architectural survey of a heritage building. 
Theatre Complex houses three Auditoria with 2,757 seats 
capacity, a renowned Ballet Company, Fine Arts Exposition 3. THE IMPORTANCE OF PLANNING AHEAD 
Rooms, the Symphonic Orchestra of Paraná headquarters and 
the Centro Cultural Teatro Guaira Administration. It was For each new survey project of a heritage building, since each 
one is particularly unique, there must be a cautious planning. 
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