Track 05 – Analysis and Interpretation

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    Building Height Assessment for Heritage Site's Surroundings using 3D-GIS Multiple Scenarios
    (The Eurographics Association, 2025) Sukwai, Janjira; Srinurak, Nattasit; Campana, Stefano; Ferdani, Daniele; Graf, Holger; Guidi, Gabriele; Hegarty, Zackary; Pescarin, Sofia; Remondino, Fabio
    A heritage property associated with a wider setting of natural landscape necessitates specific approach to safeguarding the values and integrity it carries. This study proposed conservation and management practices to look into height intrusion that may have had an adverse visual impact on a heritage site's surroundings both in the immediate vicinity and the extend beyond to its wider setting. A heritage site - Suan Dok Temple in Chiang Mai city, Thailand, was selected as a case study using the Viewshed analysis to investigate visibility of the temple with two distinct heights of stupas: Suan Dok height and Average height, as well as its associated mountain landscape as a result of building height impact in the adjacent, close, and mountain view zones. And later to comparing scenarios created by Computer Generative Architecture (CGA) to estimate optimal or critical building height for each view zone. The results indicated that, in the adjacent zone, the most critical building height range is less than 15 and 9 meters, respectively. Further from the heritage site, in the close zone, the critical building height range is less than 21 and 15 meters, respectively. The mountain backdrop naturally exhibits a direct variation based on the height of the taller buildings, necessitating further discussion of the optimal or critical height. The building height scenario presented in this study demonstrates the potential of employing 3D GIS through the rule package in CGA to assess the height of buildings within the heritage site's surrounding area. This approach presents an opportunity to evaluate the building height regulations in the context of urban planning and design, particularly regarding the preservation of the heritage's visual integrity.