Reconstitution of a french chapel circa 1900
There is a chapel in the village where I live that was turned into a teaching room by the previous tenants, and defaced in many ways by time and carelessness. As the new owners turned it into an art gallery, they were keen on having a way to visualise the original state of the room, the way it used to be when nuns use to inhabit the place.
This work of restoration was done by extensive photographic survey of the chapel, the one photographic evidence of the period and a lot of digging and deduction work from the traces left in the room despite the years.
The Final animation
Rebuilding the ironwork in splines
Final look of some of the ironwork
First volume modelling, to get a sense of scale. Cleaning up the photogrammetry
Photogrametry reconstruction (first pass)
Photogrametry reconstruction with textures
Modelling the alter.
final look of the alter.
Some more ironwork
putting back the confessional that now sits in a church nearby.
Trying out methods to project the original paintings to the ceiling (and the glasswork)
Trying out the colours.
Testing the godrays
Photogrammetry of a prie-dieu (a prayer chair) authentic of the era.
The original way of the cross was captured by photogramettry for the sculpted part and the frame was modelled (as a clean up process)