Ripon Cathedral Scanning Project

Creative Director and Principal Investigator
North Yorkshire, UK 2013
Funded by the School of Visual Arts (SOVA) at Virginia Tech
~Awarded tenure in spring, 2016

For this completed project, I used the FARO 3D laser scanner to scan the crypt at Ripon Cathedral in North Yorkshire, UK. Ripon Cathedral is a beautiful, ancient church with a history reaching back to the 7th century. The team explored the vernacular architectural mass and space reproduced in digital form, its performative and symbolic analysis, and its use as an educational tool. We presented the results at the CAA conference for professionals in both medieval studies and in VR design. Later, we explored the design of a traveling virtual reality exhibition based on the Rippon 3D models.

Collaborators: Dr. Dominic Marner (Associate Director of the School of Fine Arts and Music, University of Guelph, Canada); Dr. Ronald Hawker (Associate Head, School of Critical and Creative Studies, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Canada).