3D Modeller at ‘The Cyprus Institute’
Working Experience
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An excellent year at The Cyprus Institute! Worked as part of a creative team, consisted of scientists, architects, urban architects, programmers and researchers. Being part of The Cyprus Institute as a Visual Designer under the Science and Technology in Archaeology Research Centre, I had the great chance of working on the precise 3D reconstruction model of the whole City of Nicosia. “RIVEEL 3D” and “Visualizing Paphos Gate”, collaborative projects with the University of Illinois, Nicosia’s Municipality, Department of Antiquities in Cyprus, Wagstaffs Design, and Urban Silence Ltd in London, UK. Thus, after the first stage of the reconstruction of the City, we imported the models in Virtual Environment using an intuitive gesture-based interface, for members of the public to explore these environments and cultural researchers to utilize the app for further research and education. In addition, these projects’ construction consisted from lighting and texturing from laser scans, photogrammetry methods and techniques.
In addition, I worked on the production of architectural drawings for Institution’s library renovation and extension of STARLab’s building. I have also produced the 3D Model replicas of the Heliostat project, for further 3D printing.
During my employment period at the CyI, I had also, the chance to participate in Designmorphine Workshop, Dynamic Mutations V.03. Furthermore, I took a secondment from the ‘CyI’ to ‘Exergy Ltd UK’, under a European Commission Project - Horizon 2020, by Marie Skłodowska Curie, Smart Gems Project. There I used Revit for 3D modelling and then VE-IES in order to create thermal and environmental simulations for a housing prototype.
Contact terminated due to EU’s budged limitations.
Mainly I have worked on the production of the precise 3D model reconstruction of the City of Nicosia and importing it in VR using 3Ds Max, Unity, VR devices, Blender and Photogrammetry. See below.
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CYI and Virtual Environments:
Virtual Environments research is committed in promoting a wide range of activities, from uncovering hidden traces of the past to promoting the role of heritage in the future cities. It features state-of-the-art equipment, like 3D stereoscopic projectors; Oculus Rift stereoscopic goggles & Virtuix Omni treadmill.
Project Characteristics:
The aim of our research is the development of real-time 3dimensional virtual environments to test the potential of spatially distributed narrative structures in engaging users in the operation of cultural heritage monuments in the urban environment of the historic centre of Nicosia to inform the public and evaluate the design and historic development of cities, buildings and exhibition artifacts. These interactive environments perform as a meeting place for play, communication, collaboration, exploration, discovery and therefore learning and education.
Project Links:
’RIVEEL 3D’ - http://avl.ncsa.illinois.edu/realworld-software/riveel-3d
‘Visualising Paphos Gate’ - http://dioptra.cyi.ac.cy/?q=Riveel_3d
Credits to:
Georgios Artopoulos, Nikolas Bakirtzis with Sorin Hermon, Charalambos Ioannou, Jens Wiegand, Ropertos Georgiou, Giancarlo Iannone, Danai Konstantinidou, Marina Faka and Dante Abate (The Cyprus Institute, Science and Technology in Archaeology Research Center) & Marina SolomidouIeronymidou and Polina Christofi (Department of Antiquities); Agni Petridou and Athina Papadopoulou (Nicosia Municipality) & Donna J Cox, Kenton Guadron McHenry, Bob Patterson, AJ Christensen, Stuart Levy and Colter Wehmeier (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, AVL); Urban Silence London, UK; Wagstaffs London, UK; Daniele Ferdani, Emanuel Demetrescu, Enzo d’Annibale (ITABC - Instituto per le Technologie Applicate ai Beni Culturali Rome, Italy)
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Heliostat 3D Replica - as a desk phone charger using solar panel method:
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Library’s Rennovation - Concept Ideas:
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Secondment at Exergy UK - under EU Horizon 2020 project:
(click on the image below to be transfered to the report)
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Finally, after my work at the CyI, I have been contacted again by them to participate with CyI’s team at “Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2017”; worked on the Cypriot Rooms ‘Future Earth’ & ‘Nicosia’ - http://vislab.cyi.ac.cy/seoul-biennale/ Supervised by Dr. Georgios Artopoulos
Working Experience
An excellent year at The Cyprus Institute! Worked as part of a creative team, consisted of scientists, architects, urban architects, programmers and researchers. Being part of The Cyprus Institute as a Visual Designer under the Science and Technology in Archaeology Research Centre, I had the great chance of working on the precise 3D reconstruction model of the whole City of Nicosia. “RIVEEL 3D” and “Visualizing Paphos Gate”, collaborative projects with the University of Illinois, Nicosia’s Municipality, Department of Antiquities in Cyprus, Wagstaffs Design, and Urban Silence Ltd in London, UK. Thus, after the first stage of the reconstruction of the City, we imported the models in Virtual Environment using an intuitive gesture-based interface, for members of the public to explore these environments and cultural researchers to utilize the app for further research and education. In addition, these projects’ construction consisted from lighting and texturing from laser scans, photogrammetry methods and techniques.
In addition, I worked on the production of architectural drawings for Institution’s library renovation and extension of STARLab’s building. I have also produced the 3D Model replicas of the Heliostat project, for further 3D printing.
During my employment period at the CyI, I had also, the chance to participate in Designmorphine Workshop, Dynamic Mutations V.03. Furthermore, I took a secondment from the ‘CyI’ to ‘Exergy Ltd UK’, under a European Commission Project - Horizon 2020, by Marie Skłodowska Curie, Smart Gems Project. There I used Revit for 3D modelling and then VE-IES in order to create thermal and environmental simulations for a housing prototype.
Contact terminated due to EU’s budged limitations.
Mainly I have worked on the production of the precise 3D model reconstruction of the City of Nicosia and importing it in VR using 3Ds Max, Unity, VR devices, Blender and Photogrammetry. See below.
CYI and Virtual Environments:
Virtual Environments research is committed in promoting a wide range of activities, from uncovering hidden traces of the past to promoting the role of heritage in the future cities. It features state-of-the-art equipment, like 3D stereoscopic projectors; Oculus Rift stereoscopic goggles & Virtuix Omni treadmill.
Project Characteristics:
- Immersive Real-Time 3d Virtual Environments for Education and Learning
- 3D City Modelling
- Human-Computer Interaction methodologies
The aim of our research is the development of real-time 3dimensional virtual environments to test the potential of spatially distributed narrative structures in engaging users in the operation of cultural heritage monuments in the urban environment of the historic centre of Nicosia to inform the public and evaluate the design and historic development of cities, buildings and exhibition artifacts. These interactive environments perform as a meeting place for play, communication, collaboration, exploration, discovery and therefore learning and education.
Project Links:
’RIVEEL 3D’ - http://avl.ncsa.illinois.edu/realworld-software/riveel-3d
‘Visualising Paphos Gate’ - http://dioptra.cyi.ac.cy/?q=Riveel_3d
Credits to:
Georgios Artopoulos, Nikolas Bakirtzis with Sorin Hermon, Charalambos Ioannou, Jens Wiegand, Ropertos Georgiou, Giancarlo Iannone, Danai Konstantinidou, Marina Faka and Dante Abate (The Cyprus Institute, Science and Technology in Archaeology Research Center) & Marina SolomidouIeronymidou and Polina Christofi (Department of Antiquities); Agni Petridou and Athina Papadopoulou (Nicosia Municipality) & Donna J Cox, Kenton Guadron McHenry, Bob Patterson, AJ Christensen, Stuart Levy and Colter Wehmeier (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, AVL); Urban Silence London, UK; Wagstaffs London, UK; Daniele Ferdani, Emanuel Demetrescu, Enzo d’Annibale (ITABC - Instituto per le Technologie Applicate ai Beni Culturali Rome, Italy)
Heliostat 3D Replica - as a desk phone charger using solar panel method:
Library’s Rennovation - Concept Ideas:
Secondment at Exergy UK - under EU Horizon 2020 project:
(click on the image below to be transfered to the report)
Finally, after my work at the CyI, I have been contacted again by them to participate with CyI’s team at “Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2017”; worked on the Cypriot Rooms ‘Future Earth’ & ‘Nicosia’ - http://vislab.cyi.ac.cy/seoul-biennale/ Supervised by Dr. Georgios Artopoulos