MIT DESIGN HERITAGE
Computation Design Lab

MIT Design Heritage
DIGITAL COLLECTION

The Design Heritage Project is an online gallery built by MIT Design Heritage Lab, led by Professor Takehiko Nagakura, with the purpose of collecting, sharing, and curating 3D captures of landmarks, historical preservations, heritage places and spatial designs.

Each digital heritage building contains a gallery of individually uploaded 3D photogrammatric models and a collaborative patchwork area.

FEATURES

MDP enables collaboration and interaction with heritage through multiple means.

Share Models

Sharing of exclusive, valuable documentation of historical sites enabled through 3D-scanning.

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Immersive View

Accessible via mobile devices, users can explore heritage from multiple perspective through AR.

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Spatial Narrative

User can create a storyboard with a series of models and perspectives, and guide the viewers through a storyline.

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Selected Projects

MORE PROJECTS

PUBLICATIONS

Panoramic Video: Recording and Representing the Digital Heritage Experience

Dec 2017
T. Nagakura, D. Tsai, J. Choi

AR Mail from Harbin

Jul 2017
T. Nagakura, W. Sung

Augmented Reality(AR) of Historic Environments: Representation of Parion Theater, Biga, Turkey

Dec 2017
D. Ozer, T. Nagakura, N. Vlavianos

Frequent Users

TEAM

MIT Design Heritage is led by a group of architectural designers and researchers at MIT.

Takehiko Nagakura

MDH Director

Wenzhe Peng

Lead Developer

Charles Wu

Developer

Rui Wang

Developer

Yuxuan Lei

Developer

Former Developer and Content Contributor

Yichen Jia
Eytan Mann
Rachelle Villalon
Diego Cornejo Barra
Xu Zhang