3D for Heritage_India

A couple of weeks ago, Berni Devilat & Felipe Lanuza Rilling received three international guests from India in the context of the project: "Dissemination and applicability of a sustainable re-construction framework for seismic heritage areas of Gujarat, India", hosted at the Research Group, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, funded by the International Research Collaboration Fund, University of Nottingham:

Mrudula Mane from CEPT Research and Development Foundation CEPT University
Aditya Singh, from Aabhat Hunnarshala Foundation
Nisarg Dave, from the Gujarat Institute of Disaster Management - GIDM

More details on this post: https://3d4heritageindia.com/2025/03/03/workshops-at-the-university-of-nottingham/

With thanks to:
Shubham Daberao
Chris Booker

International workshop at the University of Nottingham From the 3rd to the 5th of March 2025, Dr Bernadette Devilat and Dr Felipe Lanuza, from the Architecture, Culture and Tectonics Research Group University of Nottingham (UoN), hosted a series of wor…

A belated post about reinforcing the chabutra (bird feeder) in Bela, finished last year. This was led by Aditya Singh and Mahavir Acharya from Hunnarshala Foundation. More information on this post: https://3d4heritageindia.com/2024/03/30/example-of-reinforcement-strategies-finished/

This is an outcome of a previous phase of this Research project: "Applicability and scalability of a sustainable re-construction framework for seismic-prone heritage areas of Gujarat, India", funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council - AHRC and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Other members of the research team:

Department of Architecture and Built Environment University of Nottingham:
Berni Devilat & Felipe Lanuza

Center for Heritage Conservation CEPT Research and Development Foundation CEPT University:
Jigna Desai
Mrudula Mane
Saatvika Pancholi
Nigar Shaikh

Nottingham Trent University:
Gamal Abdelmonem

Photos by Arvind Anthu. 2024

Example of reinforcement strategies finished Led by our project partner, the Hunnarshala Foundation, the example of repair and reinforcement strategies was finished. These included repairing damaged stone masonry walls and adding elements to …

Final presentation at the University of Nottingham On the 6th of March 2024, Dr Bernadette Devilat gave a final lecture at the Architecture, Culture and Tectonics (ACT) Research Group monthly seminars, Department of Architecture and Built Environme…

We continued our last activities on-site presenting a permanent exhibition to the local community installed at the example of repair and reinforcement strategies building, designed and built as part of our research project to raise awareness and increase preparedness for the next earthquake: https://3d4heritageindia.com/2024/02/17/repair-and-reinforcement-strategies-at-the-chabutra-birdfeeder/

This was led by Aditya Singh, from Aabhat & Mahavir Acharya, from Hunnarshala Foundation. Special thanks to Nigar ShaikhShaikh from the Center for Heritage Conservation CEPT Research and Development Foundation CEPT University (CHC CRDF) for her valuable contributions during the design process.

Big thanks to the team on-site: Berni Devilat & Felipe Lanuza Rilling from the Department of Architecture and Built Environment University of Nottingham; Jigna Desai, Mrudula Mane & Saatvika Pancholi, from CHC CRDF; Shubham Daberao from the Gujarat Institute of Disaster Management - India.

Also, thanks to the rest of our research team: & Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem, Nottingham Trent University

And to previous members of the team: Rohit Jigyasu & Sukrit Sen, ICCROM - conserving culture, promoting diversity; Zeus Pithawallaa, from CHC CRDF & Repaul Kanji from Gujarat Institute of Disaster Management - India.

This project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council - AHRC and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Repair and reinforcement strategies at the Chabutra (birdfeeder) On the afternoon of the 17th of February 2024, we held an informative session with the local community, at Bela’s Chabutra (bird feeder), featuring the repair and reinforcement strategies imp…

The last activities on-site we did last month for the research project: 'Applicability and scalability of a sustainable re-construction framework for seismic-prone areas of Gujarat, India', started with presenting the Disaster Risk Management Plan of Bela: https://3d4heritageindia.com/2024/02/17/presentation-of-disaster-risk-management-plan-of-bela-by-gidm/

This was led by Shubham Daberao from the Gujarat Institute of Disaster Management. Thanks to all members of our team who were on-site: Berni Devilat & Felipe Lanuza Rilling from the Department of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Nottingham; Jigna Desai, Mrudula Mane & Saatvika Pancholi, from the Center for Heritage Conservation CEPT Research and Development Foundation (CHC CRDF), CEPT University; Aditya Singh, from the Hunnarshala Foundation.

Thanks to the rest of our research team: Nigar Shaikh from CHC CRDF; Mahavir Acharya, from the Hunnarshala Foundation & Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem from Nottingham Trent University

And to previous members of the team: Rohit Jigyasu & Sukrit Sen from ICCROM - conserving culture, promoting diversity; and Zeus Pithawalla, from CHC CRDF.

This project is funded by the: Arts and Humanities Research Council - AHRC and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Presentation of the Disaster Risk Management Plan for Bela, by GIDM On the morning of the 17th of February, we held activities at Bela’s School for all the community and local authorities. The activities started with laying out the 3D laser scanning map of th…

We invite you to the open lecture by Dr. Bernadette Devilat, Assistant Professor at University of Nottingham, on 'Applicability and scalability of a sustainable re-construction framework for seismic-prone heritage areas of Gujarat, India’ at CEPT University.

Venue - FA 302
Timings - 6:00 pm - 7:00pm

The lecture is based on the research project 3D for Heritage India, aiming to build future resilience and local capacity of seismic-prone heritage areas of India by offering a digital platform to enable the design of mitigation and reconstruction plans, damage and technical assessments, enhancing the re-use and repair of housing and virtually preserving its culture embedded as the record of ‘living heritage’.

Project website - https://3d4heritageindia.com/

3D for Heritage_India
Arts and Humanities Research Council - AHRC
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Berni Devilat
Saatvika Pancholi
Nigar Shaikh
Aditya Singh
Jigna Desai
Mrudula Mane

CEPT Research and Development Foundation
CEPT University
Hunnarshala Foundation
Gujarat Institute of Disaster Management

On the second day of the www.3D4heritageindia.com project activities, we had a workshop at the Gujarat Institute of Disaster Management

Experts there gave talks to the team and participating students from CEPT University delivering the key messages that there are no natural disasters and the importance to build resilience to move from disaster management to disaster risk reduction.

Shubham Daberao also did an amazing session were the students acted the different roles of stakeholders involved in emergency response.

Thanks to all who are contributing to this project

Aditya Singh - Hunnarshala Foundation

Jigna Desai
Saatvika Pancholi
Nigar Shaikh
Mrudula Mane
Center for Heritage Conservation
CEPT Research and Development Foundation

Berni Devilat
Felipe Lanuza

University of Nottingham

Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem, Nottingham Trent University

This project is funded by: Arts and Humanities Research Council - AHRC and Department for Culture, Media and Sport

We started the activities of our research project in this third field trip of Phase 3 with an introduction to architectural students at CEPT University in Ahmedabad.

Berni Devilat explained the relevance of heritage intervention in post-earthquake contexts, the research project, what we have been doing thus far for the last three years, and the activities to be done at Bela, our case study.

Then Jigna Desai gave a talk regarding the ethical considerations we have included while working with the local community.

Saatvika Pancholi explained earthquake considerations for non-engineered structures.

Nigar Shaikh explained structural considerations and gave a safety brief to the students.

Thanks to all who are contributing to this project

Shubham Daberao - Gujarat Institute of Disaster Management

Aditya Singh - Hunnarshala Foundation

Mrudula Mane- Center for Heritage Conservation CEPT Research and Development Foundation

Felipe Lanuza University of Nottingham

Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem Nottingham Trent University

This project is funded by:Arts and Humanities Research Council - AHRC and Department for Culture, Media and Sport