SOE provided consulting services to direct the repair of an existing bargeboard located in Darien, Connecticut. A “Bargeboard”, a.k.a. vergeboard, is the exposed board or false rafter running underneath the slopes of a projecting gable roof. Such a board is often richly decorated with carved, cut-out, or painted designs and patterns, particularly found in 19th-century Gothic Revival architecture in England and the United States. The building known as “The Henry David Weed House” was completed in 1868 and its Gothic Revival structure and high Victorian architectural decorative elements were designed at the behest and direction of Henry David Weed (1803-1875). The bargeboard is one of two original exposed bargeboards on the structure; although there are multiple elements in need of repair the scope of this report will encompass only the east-facing bargeboard and its immediate surrounding elements.

SOE collaborated with Lede Lab, a team from The Washington Post dedicated to exploring the use of emerging technologies in storytelling, to launch an interactive 3D model of the Tenement Museum in New York City, enabling readers to embark on a virtual tour of the historic building.

SOE was commissioned to produce high resolution 3D models of Mayan, Teotihuacán, and Zapotec artifacts held at the The National Museum of Anthropology and Monte Albán using photogrammetry.

The San Baudelio Hermitage was covered in colorful wall paintings until 1926 when an art dealer removed the artworks from the monument and sold them to museums around the world. Now the monument stands in a plundered state, giving visitors an incomplete experience of the site. Since returning the paintings to their original context is impossible, we used Augmented Reality as a preservation strategy to return the paintings to the walls.

In December 2019, we carried out the digitization of the General John J. Pershing statue located on the Washington Mall. The work was part of an initiative for visitors to interact with the monument during the scheduled renovation work taking place in the park over the next two years. SOE delivered a high-resolution 3D model for documentation and display.

As an alternative to traditional documentation methods, such as hand measuring and modeling, we worked with the Onera Foundation to document their historic landmark using the latest digital recording methods.

We designed and develop a new visualization tool to present documentation and research of Old Essex Jail in an interactive way. The result is an augmented reality app for Apple iPhones and tablets, which allows users to display content developed by students from NJIT & Columbia University architecture & preservation studios.

SOE provided technology consulting and project management for artists Farzin Lofti-Jam and Caitlin Blanchfield’s project titled Modern Management Methods. We coordinated and conducted X-Ray scans of architectural elements at the United Nations Headquarters that they exhibited at the Shed’s Open Call Summer 2019.

In sponsorship by ARCHiVe (Analysis and Recording of Cultural Heritage in Venice) and the William Kinne Traveling Fellowship, we used digital documentation techniques to record architectural sites in Venice visited by Ruskin in the 19th century. We used photogrammetry to continue scholar John Ruskin’s project of “watching old buildings with anxious care” through documentation while also interrogating the enduring relevance of Ruskin’s 19th-century ideas as a basis for 21st-century preservation. SOE conducted photogrammetry at the Cini Foundation located on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice.