Even when the Hagia Sophia fully collapses in a potential Istanbul earthquake, it may be rebuilt in the identical approach, reviews TRT Haber
The Turkish Ministry of Tradition and Tourism has accomplished the entire digital imaging of the Hagia Sophia as a part of a “holistic recording” program of the monument, based on the state-run TRT Haber community.
As a part of the venture, performed by the Basic Directorate of Endowments (Public Profit Foundations) in 2022, Hagia Sophia was scanned in excessive decision, a digital twin of the constructing was created and archived.
Even when the Hagia Sophia fully collapses in a potential Istanbul earthquake, it may be rebuilt in the identical approach, reviews TRT Haber.
Sengyul Konjagyul, head of the Division of Works of Artwork and Constructions of the Basic Directorate of Foundations acknowledged that “we’ve created a digital twin with the most recent scanning strategies. A venture has been created that can permit for its correct building within the occasion of any structural deterioration or injury in a potential earthquake, fireplace or catastrophe.”
Within the framework of the identical program, numerous papers, theses and books associated to Hagia Sophia have been additionally collected and added to the database created.
“Having this data we will know the construction. When a affected person goes to the physician, x-rays are taken and checks are accomplished. Consider it like a affected person, we’ve details about all of the options of the constructing. Now we have data from the gaps within the partitions, the crack within the dome, the situation of the mosaics within the crack within the dome, even the ground downstairs, and within the gentle of this data, we’re engaged on the smallest particulars with the intention to defend, in a approach which befits a historic constructing, its situation because it was constructed till right this moment, with out disturbing its historic texture, its properties, with out destroying its glorious construction” mentioned Ms. Konjagul.