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Faculty: de Noble One of the most difficult aspects of architectural intervention and urban analysis is the accurate assessment and subsequent representation of the natural and built environment. Throughout history the ability to accurately convey the intricacies of site and place has often meant the difference between designs of great empathy and those lacking contextual understanding. At the scale of the city the topography and built form have historically been fairly well represented in plan views. However this information is often difficult to translate to three dimensions, a necessary enterprise for modeling in the age of digital production. Additionally, information on heights, elevations, and form variations is difficult and labor intensive to obtain through traditional surveying techniques, often leading to guesswork and the potential for difficulties due to inaccuracies. The latest technologies such as 3D profilers and Total Station with GPS, allow for rapid collection and verification of data enabling more accurate and thorough analyses of urban form. This is critical in advancing the veracity of urban analysis and fosters the potential for architectural designs appropriate for their context. Uses of the HARLS-CS include acquisition of heights, locations of buildings, infrastructure, vegetation, etc, accurate form data (polygonal solids such as hip roofs, etc.), shade/shadow assessment, land form assessment/manipulation calculations, facile transfer of elevation data to CAD/modeling programs, general enhancement of analytical and visualization data.
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