2024-11-24T05:18:47-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150149468/the-nonument-group-digitally-preserving-architectural-treasures-before-they-re-lost Alexander Walter 2019-08-01T16:25:00-04:00 >2024-10-25T04:07:38-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/1a/1a1dafc7a3fbc665f1dcbdd6c9be3ad8.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Working with an international team of researchers and artists, Tom&scaron;i&#269; and Bricelj Baraga study, map and archive fading sites and Brutalist-style structures. They&rsquo;re building a database of about 120 case studies across Europe and in former Soviet states and will be releasing a book this year.</p></em><br /><br /><p>"Using a surveying and data-collection process known as photogrammetry and a series of high-powered computer workstations, a team led by Georgios Artopoulos will create a digital model of the monument for use with virtual reality headsets or smartphones," writes the <em>Guardian</em>'s Nate Berg about the efforts of the <a href="https://nonument.org/" target="_blank">Nonument Group</a> to map and document the rapidly deteriorating and severely vandalized Monument House of the Bulgarian Communist Party (also known as the Buzludzha Monument) &mdash; one of many "hidden, abandoned, unwanted or otherwise forgotten" contemporary heritage sites the group aims to digitally preserve before they're gone forever.<br></p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ae/ae0c1acb1b88236badcec3184c2614e5.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ae/ae0c1acb1b88236badcec3184c2614e5.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>The badly damaged interior of the Buzludzha Monument Auditorium. Photo: Stanislav Traykov/Wikimedia Commons</figcaption></figure>