Photogrammetric and traditional analysis of two churches in Lefkara, Cyprus

A structural and building analysis of two monuments situated in the Lefkara region carried out as part of the curriculum for the School of Architecture at Frederick University. It was the first time that a photogrammetric approach was employed for the analysis of such heritage sites within the course's context and it was fantastic opportunity to test a functional gathering and processing pipeline to facilitate the creation of interior and exterior models.

The terrestrial captures were done with a Canon Mark II DSLR and a 24-70mm 2.8 lens while the exteriors were captured with aerial drone imaging. Processing was done using Reality Capture software with mesh cleanup and retopo done in 3dsmax and Zbrush.

Rendering was done within the UE4 game engine (for the photogrammetric models) while the diagrammatic models were rendered using Redshift within Cinema 4D.

Credits :

Ghencea Irinei Dimitri - Modeling diagrammatic church model / Agios Timotheos

Nicholas Spirou - Modeling diagrammatic church model / Archangel Michael

Drone Pilot : Savvas Ioannides

Terrestrial Photography / Photogrammetric processing / Cleanup / Animation / Rendering and editing : Andreas Kopriva Lernis

Massive thanks go out to the Frederick University and our esteemed professors :

Dr Naso Chrysochou

Prof. Marios Pelekanos

Prof. Panayioris Touliatos

Prof. Nikos Georgiou

I sincerely thank you for the opportunity and for your guidance in the creation of this presentation.

The slide show below shows some of the analytical potential of producing a scanned model for quality and structural observation.