Project #SaveUkrainianHeritage
Architecture hallmarks – priceless and fragile, always needed careful treatment, and especially now, during Russia’s aggressive full-scale war.And so today, thanks to modern technologies and with the support from the EU, experts from Lviv weave a digital lace of historic memory capturing the beauty and grandeur of artistic masterpieces in 3D models.
Russian war will not stop Ukrainian culture
About the project
Whereas until 2022 the enemies of architecture hallmarks were natural factors and human negligence, now Russian missiles have been added to those disruptors. At any moment, in any corner of Ukraine, deadly weapons can turn pearl of historical heritage into a pile of debris and ashes. Only modern technology can preserve their unique beauty and grandeur for future generations.
3D digital models belong to the latest achievements in preserving priceless history and culture artefacts. Indeed, those three-dimensional digital models, thanks to the accuracy of shape, proportion and real size embedded in the solution, can serve as a basis for their restoration and reproduction in their original form. “Our task is to capture as much of the architectural and artistic heritage of Ukraine as possible and to protect historical memory from the destructive effects of time,” says the team of the Skeiron company, which is currently creating 3D models of 40 hallmarks of Lviv and the surrounding areas. “Even before the war began, we had been scanning culture items, and now, at the moment of a full-scale invasion, we realize the even greater urgency of this”.
Project timeline: 2022 – 2023
Project supported by
The ALIPH Foundation (International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Areas) is the main global fund exclusively dedicated to protecting cultural heritage that has become endangered during hostilities or after a conflict. ALIPH finances concrete projects carried out on the ground, hand-in-hand with local partners, authorities, and communities.From March 2022 to June 2023, with financial support also from the EU, ALIPH supported 310 cultural organisations in Ukraine.
Read more about the ALIPH Foundation: https://www.aliph-foundation.org/en
Project implemented by
Lviv-based company Skeiron is a team of four young like-minded enthusiasts Ukrainians who have built their business by merging high technology and social responsibility. The latter primarily concerns digitisation of museum collections and the creation of 3D digital models of architectural and historical hallmarks. In addition, the company delivers services in geodesy, topography, laser scanning and AR developments. Among them, the most outstanding and very popular one is the interactive application for smartphones called Pocket City. This application allows people to listen to an audio tour and have a 3D-view of the most cherished sights of Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa, Chortkiv, Kharkiv and other cities and locations around Ukraine from a smartphone. In total, the company’s portfolio over the last 6 years of its operation includes more than 100 3D models of cultural heritage sites from four countries.
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