Course Description
FARO has partnered with the University of Michigan Architectural department. Join Dawn Gilpin and Robert Adams as they describe how the U of M team used FARO scanners to scan their massive football stadium. How did they do it? What lessons were learned?
Your Presenters: Dawn Gilpin and Robert Adams
Dawn
Gilpin and Robert Adams are architecture faculty at
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of
Michigan where they co-direct the Empathy in Point-Clouds Immersive
Storytelling Scan-Lab [EIPC] sponsored by FARO Technologies.
Dawn Gilpin
Dawn
Gilpin [M.Arch. SCI-Arc] is Lecturer IV in
Architecture at Taubman College. Dawn is the Director of Empathy in Point
Clouds [EIPC], a multi-disciplinary team that uses terrestrial laser scanning,
aerial laser scanning, and photogrammetry to produce digital storytelling and
spatial narratives of contested sites of occupation. The team develops
workflows for digital twin creation through immersive platforms in education
and research. She teaches architecture design studios and has developed courses
for 3D terrestrial lidar scanning, FARO certification, foundations of Unreal
Engine, and photogrammetry.
Robert Adams
Robert
Adams [M.Arch. SCI-Arc] is an Associate Professor
of Architecture at Taubman College, the Stamps School of Art & Design, and
the Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan. Additionally,
Robert directs the University of Michigan Initiative on Disability Studies.
Robert’s research focuses on the interplay between art, architecture, and
design through disability culture, civic infrastructure, and responsive
environments.
