RESOURCES

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Check here the Virtual Reality Platform developed within the project, one of the main outputs of the project. The Carmo Integrated Analysis platform will allow you to explore the convent and show non-visible aspects of the old church, such as the interior of the columns, some results of structural analysis performed or the hypothetical reconstruction of the church before the 1755 earthquake:

Watch here the video trailer developed to present the project, summarizing the main actions developed within the HWITHIN Research Project:

The HWITHIN European Research Project also had some impact on the Portuguese national media (TV and radio). Check the reports in the following links:

publications

This section will also display soon the scientific publications prepared under the framework of the HWITHIN project. We will keep you posted!

The Heritage Within: European Research Project book is a 120 pages summary of the works carried out during the project. It includes 9 chapters describing the activities carried out, the main objectives of the project and the results obtained, from the history of the building to the virtual 3D reconstruction and from the novel inspection techniques developed and applied to the implementation of all results within an interactive virtual reality platform.

The high quality pdf version of the book is free to download by clicking on the image on your left.

ISBN: 978-989-54496-6-8

Project team

The team includes highly trained professionals from different fields: architects, civil engineers, telecommunication engineers, archaeologists, art historians, and geophysicists. The project involves four participant institutions from three different countries: University of Minho (Portugal), the Spanish National Research Council and the Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain), and the Italian National Research Council (Italy). Full list of the project team here. The project has the support of the Archaeological Museum of Carmo, in Lisbon (Portugal), which is the outstanding project case study. The project is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

Contact us

You can contact the project coordinator, Javier Ortega, at the Institute for Sustainability in Structural Engineering (ISISE), University of Minho (UMinho) – Campus de Azurém, Guimarães 4800-058, Portugal, but you can contact other team members:

Margarita González Hernández, at the Spanish National Research Council – Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC).

Miguel Ángel García Izquierdo, at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM).

Nicola Masini, at the Italian National Research Council – Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR).