Long Meadow Barn

Long Meadow is a plantation in Fishersville, VA. It was the site chosen for UVA’s Architectural History Field Methods class to investigate, and we were asked to scan it to support those students. One portion of the site consisted of a mammoth timber barn which had been repeatedly expanded over the course of more than a century. This resulted in a complicated structure. For this reason, the Long Meadow barn was a project limited to myself and one other student, because we had the most scanning experience.

The most difficult part of the process was actually registering the scans together to create the final point cloud model. Due to scheduling conflicts with another class, I was unable to participate in the field work of actually scanning the barn. Therefore, when I began to register the interior scans together, I was working essentially blind on a building I had never seen in person. Thankfully, my partner produced comprehensive scan plans on site which provided much needed context when placing scans.

For further information on the Long Meadow Barn, including images and renderings produced, visit https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/4e5446dcf8024d56932c819b3a29ce2d.