Digital twin of wooden shingle envelopes

This dataset has been provided to make an accurate digital twin of wooden shingle envelopes. Wooden shingles are one of the most sustainable vernacular building systems that were widely used to cover building roofs and facades by expert craftspeople. This roofing technique extensively depends on craft knowledge and nowadays only a limited number of expert craftspeople know this technique. Additionally, there was no documentation or digital drawing of this local building system, before this research.

 In this research, we could successfully provide the first and most accurate documentation of this valuable type of architecture by digitizing the construction process of two types of wooden shingles, known as Tavillons and Bardeaux. 

Two prototypes were built in collaboration with two Tavilloneurs, Here Schopfer and François Krummenacher at IBOIS laboratory and all the data was processed by the authores.

This dataset contains both the raw 3d scans of all the individual wooden shingles for the two prototypes in PLY format, and also the 3D model of the final digital twin in 3dm format. 

This research is funded by the National Centres of Competence in Research (NCCRs) and EPFL.