Making of Hampi: An attempt to bridge culture and technology aspects

摘要

Indian temple architecture gives us a rare insight into design, construction, proportion and scale. In Dravidian temples, especially Vijayanagara architecture and in particular Hampi architecture is an impeccable synergy between structural innovation and architectural expression. The 'Vittala temple complex' at Hampi, Karnataka, India has been taken for study, documentation, analysis of design elements and 3D virtual modeling/reconstruction of the complete temple complex. In this project it has been attempted to bridge the culture and technology by using Google sketch up modelling and Kinect as tools.