Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
METU JOURNAL OF THE FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE = ODTÜ MIMARLIK FAKÜLTESI DERGIS, cilt.1, ss.1-11, 2022 (AHCI)
Heritage building conservation planning is values-based, interdisciplinary process that requires
effective means to capture, represent, and visualize relevant building information. The
information-intense nature of this process requires a modelling environment that can maintain
heritage building information that is highly heterogeneous, fragmented and unstructured. This
paper presents the development of a custom-made Heritage Building Information Model (HBIM)
of the Middle East Technical University Faculty of Architecture building, a 20th-century Modernist
structure. The modelling efforts were part of a research project supported by the Getty
Foundation, ‘Keeping It Modern’ Grant, which aimed at the development of a conservation
plan for this unique building. A wide variety of technologies regarding data acquisition,
representation, visualization and integration were used during modelling. In the process of model
construction, the existing model schema is extended using a top-down approach for the
representation of gathered data. We discuss the use of the relevant technologies, HBIM’s capacity
in representing assessment information, different modes of visualization that HBIM facilitates, and
possibilities of data integration between HBIM and auxiliary tools for building performance
evaluation. In the end what is assessed, is the HBIM’s potential to be continuously used to update,
access, and visualize as-is building information for heritage buildings.