Digitalising Frank Lloyd Wright's desert laboratory

作者：Fred Prozzillo

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West was always a place of innovation and exploration, where the architect returned every fall to test the limits of architecture, design, and building. To continue this legacy, the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation partnered with Leica Geosystems and Multivista to make塔利斯·韦斯特（Taliesin West）a universal and accessible experience, as well as give a new depth of understanding into this unique and ever-evolving site.

使用LeicaBLK360and the Matterport Pro2 3D Camera,Multivistaconducted a series of3D digital imaginglaser scans of Wright’s winter camp, generating a高度定义的虚拟现实模型，高度准确，完全详细的3D点云。

Preserving masterworks

塔利辛·韦斯特（Taliesin West）被公认为是赖特（Wright）的杰作之一，是他在美国亚利桑那州沙漠的冬季住宅和工作室。从1938年到1959年，赖特（Wright）和他的学徒不断尝试不同的建筑技术，形式和材料。每个冬季，赖特都会在美国中西部的家中度过夏天。他有一群年轻的学徒来在建筑物上工作，他可以​​自由进行改动并测试自己的理论，将塔利西因·韦斯特（Taliesin West）视为他的建筑实验室。

赖特（Wright）总是将塔利辛（Taliesin West）称为他的“冬季营”，其中四个主要结构是用帆布屋顶设计的。在制图工作室的织物屋顶下，学徒协助了古根海姆博物馆的设计。对于赖特（Wright），画布提供了沙漠阳光的盖子，并制作了出色的过滤灯来制图。凭借露天亭的空间特征，织物屋顶的建筑物似乎还活着，因为沙漠微风抬起了织物，好像建筑物在吸入和呼气一样。随着时间的流逝，这些建筑物失去了这些重要的空间和体验特征来满足程序需求，硬丙烯酸板代替了画布。保护团队的目标是将营地特征归还到建筑物。

Tools for visionaries

塔利斯·韦斯特（Taliesin West）’s complex data set was captured by Multivista using Leica Geosystems’ BLK360. It proved to be an invaluable tool for the preservation work at Wright’s desert camp. Thedata provides the ability to access and assess elements of the site remotely in a meaningful way and provides a platform for cataloguing patterns of construction methodology and building condition assessments and documentation。

“True to our mission, the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation is dedicated to preserving Taliesin and Taliesin West for future generations. Through our partnership with Leica Geosystems and Mulitvista, we’re able to carry out our mission, and Wright’s vision into the future, by making Taliesin West available to the world so it can experience his ideas, architecture and design in new ways,”said Stuart Graff, president and CEO of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.

为了拥抱塔利辛·韦斯特（Taliesin West）的原始精神并支持赖特（Wright）的变革遗产，弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特基金会（Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation）使用了BLK360来深入探索该空间。这3D dimensionally-precise scans, and the detailed understanding of material, form, and space they provide, will be used as models to dissect and analyse minute details to identify construction methodologies.

使用这些新数据，目前正在进行研究和规划，以测试材料和安装技术，以在起草工作室实现织物屋顶系统，并将诗歌和动作带回建筑物，恢复Taliesin West的露天营地的感觉。

Architectural enthusiasts welcome

这BLK360 provides data that was largely out of reach in the architectural industry. It creates anaccurately scaled 3D digital replica- 被称为点云 - 网站，列出视觉和维度项目信息。弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特基金会（Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation）将使用点云在制定保护计划时分析每个空间。

这highly accurate measurements can be navigated from their desktop, or opened in a CAD design software, like AutoCAD or Revit, where the dimensional data can be used tobuild floorplans, elevations, and 3D models。

“Having the opportunity to work with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and Leica Geosystems’ new technologies on such a world-renowned site has been an amazing experience. This project has been a boundary-pushing exploration from day one, which seems so fitting for Taliesin West. While testing new software, hardware and workflows in order to create a dimensionally-accurate 3D point cloud that will be used for critical preservation-related decisions, it was equally important for us to invite the world to experience and be inspired by the work of Frank Lloyd Wright,”said Brian Smith, Multivista’s product manager of emerging technologies.

这brilliance of Wright’s architecture is the space within, not simply the parts and materials that make up the envelope. Leveraging the technology of Leica Geosystems and Multivista’s construction documentation service, Frank Lloyd Wright foundation is now able to fully understand, dissect, and analyse the details of the site and continue more thoroughly toward the goal of preserving and interpreting Taliesin West.

Click here to visit Taliesin West, the first Frank Lloyd Wright property made freely available online