Description
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The roombook provides the organizational layout of the architectural plans with regard to their respective building and position within that building. This allows one to quickly identify a specific architectural element, the wall number in which it is positioned, the subgroup of the building that wall composes, and the general area where the subgroup is to be found. All of these components are catalogued in the graph database as well, allowing one to query the architectural elements across time and by location.
The 76 architectural plans span only the primary sites of the Royal Palace in Lautern and the Castles Beilstein, Hohenecken, and Perlenberg. The plans are orthographic renderings of the walls of the Structure from Motion (SfM) photogrammetric models of the sites. These renderings were then annotated in which all visible stones were outlined, with the exception of some walls at the royal palace and the entirety of Castle Perlenberg due to the high resolution image quality. Although most of the renderings feature high resolutions, these aforementioned walls were particularly detailed and therefore did not require additional outlining to identify the stones. In total, 790 stones were identified at Castle Beilstein, 12,378 at Castle Hohenecken, and 1,190 at the Royal Palace of Lautern. The stones are color coded according to the CITADEL Color Scheme for the Architectural Investigations guide for identifying the building phases and the period in which they were constructed.
The architectural plans do not depict every wall of each site, as some of the walls are missing, covered with vegetation, badly damaged, or reconstructed in recent years so that very little historical relevance can be gleaned from them. It must also be stressed that the chronological scope of the project was between the years 1152 and 1273 A.D., and therefore, some of the earlier or later features are not described or discussed in such high detail. Nevertheless, these earlier and later periods are covered as a sort of point of departure for future research.
The site overviews at the end of the roombook document feature the ground plans of the four primary sites and highlighted areas were the building groups are to be found. This assists in orientating oneself as one reads through the architectural investigations of Chapter Four and when viewing the architectural plans. These overviews are also made from the scaled SfM models, which themselves are available in HeidICON for interactive viewing, but are not annotated.
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