Automation of Historical Buildings: Historical Building Information Modeling (HBIM) based Virtual Reality (VR)

Automation of Historical Buildings: Historical Building Information Modeling (HBIM) based Virtual Reality (VR)

Keltoum OUMOUMEN, Fatima ABOUBANE, Younes ECH-CHARQY

Abstract. Every civilization’s constructed legacy, identity, and history require the cooperation of several specialists and a historical database to be preserved and passed on to future generations. The difficulties of maintaining and preserving these old buildings have been successfully handled by the integration of contemporary technology. Historical Building Information Modeling (HBIM), a branch of BIM that deals with the complexity of built heritage, acquires, manages, models, and documents specific data. Virtual reality (VR) provides the benefits of intuition, realism, and teamwork. Combining HBIM and VR improves historical building visualization, analysis, comprehension, and communication, resulting in a more effective conservation process. This paper, reviews the capabilities of VR and HBIM technologies, focusing on their impact when combined in heritage conservation practices. The aim is to determine the current state of development of VR technology in the field of existing historical buildings and to identify the challenges and limitations of its application.

Keywords
Building Information Modeling (BIM), Historical Building Information Modeling (HBIM), Virtual Reality (VR), Built Heritage

Published online 3/15/2024, 4 pages
Copyright © 2024 by the author(s)
Published under license by Materials Research Forum LLC., Millersville PA, USA

Citation: Keltoum OUMOUMEN, Fatima ABOUBANE, Younes ECH-CHARQY, Automation of Historical Buildings: Historical Building Information Modeling (HBIM) based Virtual Reality (VR), Materials Research Proceedings, Vol. 40, pp 319-322, 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644903117-34

The article was published as article 34 of the book Mediterranean Architectural Heritage

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