Hi, all- I am an architect and board member of the Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust. www.kvptnepal.org. This is preliminary for us, but potential uses for Arches would be for an archive project whose headquarters would be in the Patan Royal Palace / Patan Museum, and, linked to that, as a way to help visitors find and understand the many small monuments and sites scattered around. We are a small organization dedicated since 1990 to conserving the built heritage of the Kathmandu Valley, but since the opening of the palace last year as an architectural museum, we have received signs of interest in/ funding for further visitor/ tourist interpretation. In that arena, we have been thinking the ability to use a smartphone to visit and learn about sites would be of interest. Wondering if there will be a good fit.
We have made a point of seismic strengthening in our (roughly 50) past projects, so almost all of them survived the earthquake on the 25th without too much damage. Now we have a number of new projects we were not planning on, and a new perspective on mapping and linking them.... My view at the moment is of Portland, Maine. More relevant is my colleagues' view from the KV office is of the Patan Royal Palace Complex, where we opened the Architecture Museum last year, with some temples standing in the royal square and a few that collapsed in the earthquake. -- -- To post, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]. For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Arches Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
