Virtual Reality Reconstruction and Interpretation of the Romanic Rotunda and Medieval Timber and Earthwork from Broos
Virtual Reality Reconstruction and Interpretation of the Romanic Rotunda and Medieval Timber and Earthwork from Broos

Summary/Abstract: This paper looks at the aspects of archaeological three-dimensional reconstruction modeling from the perspective of a case study involving reconstruction of a Romanic church (rotunda) and its medieval timber and earthwork from Broos (Orăştie), incorporating reconstructed elements derived from interpreted excavation finds. The authors intend to make a reconstruction of three Romanic ecclesiastic monuments, each different from the planimetrical point of view and at the same time, the most representative and typical Romanic churches built by the Saxons in the south of Transylvania, illustrating the three general types of planimetry (short basilica, the basilica with an ampler longitudinal development and the rotunda). Through the attempt to reconstitute the timber and earthwork of Broos and its rotunda they wanted to demonstrate for Medieval archaeologists from Romania that 3D vizualisation is the ideal tool for the understanding of the archaeological data, which, most of time, are not known in their real light by the public, who are generally left with the image of foundations or ruins of a certain building. Contains 11 pictures.

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