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Figure 2. The initial shelter building for the Landscape Relief Model of Carinthia with glass roof around
1925. (a) Exterior view and (b, c) interior views. In (b) and (c), the catwalk gallery can be seen. (c) also
visualizes the overly bright illumination of the landscape relief model through the glass roof at noon.
Photographs: Municipal Museum and Archive of the City of Villach.
The “Reliefgebäude“ or ”Pavillon“ (shelter building) was constructed in 1912, based on the plans
of the Villach City Baurat (an Austrian title for municipal construction engineers), the civil engineer
Rudolf Müller. Initially, it received natural light through a large glass roof (Figure 2a–c). Since this sort
of natural illumination did not prove itself in practice due to interaction with the sun radiation, only
a few years later, the building got a roof membrane made of tin and an electric lighting (Figure 3) [4].
Figure 3. Shelter building for the Landscape Relief Model of Carinthia with changed roof membrane
made of tin (around 1925). Photograph: Municipal Museum and Archive of the City of Villach.
Figure2. Theinitial shelterbuildingfor theLandscapeReliefModel ofCarinthiawithglassroofaround
1925. (a) Exterior view and (b,c) interior views. In (b) and (c), the catwalk gallery can be seen. (c) also
visualizes theoverlybright illuminationof the landscapereliefmodel throughtheglass roofatnoon.
Photographs: MunicipalMuseumandArchiveof theCityofVillach.
ree weeks after the official opening of the Relief von Kärnten, more than 1000 visitors were
counted [7] (p. 5). Less than only four weeks after the opening, the landscape t rain model had been
visitedbymore th n2000p rsons. According othe localnewspaperVillache Zeitungof24Augus
1913,allvisitorswereamazedanddelightedbythesplendid essof thiscrea ion. Theauth rof the
rticlepraisedthenaturalappearanceanduniquenessof theobject dunderlineditsattractiveness
for the local population as well as for tourists. It was predicted that the Relief von Kärnten would,
in the future, act asa prominent tourist attraction. The volkswirtschaftlicher Verein (national-economic
association) “Oberkärnten“(“Upper” = Western = more alpine “Carinthia”) made it their business to
promote this “sculptural piece of art“ in Austrian newspapers and newspapers abroad in order to
drawattentionto thisuniqueobjectof interest ([8],p. 5).
In 1986/1987, the building got a thorough renovation and the landscape relief model was also
refurbished. Twoyears later, in1988/1989, thealreadyyellowedterrainpaintingwasrestoredbythe
Tyroliangeosculptor JörgCovi. Within thescopeof this renovation, the previously whiteneighboring
regions of Carinthia also got a topographically correct coloring, so that today the whole area of 182 m2
showsa“real landscape”andnotonly thewhitish terrainrelief [4].
The large-area Relief von Kärnten owes its existence essentially to an alpinism, educational,
and local-history motivation but—to be frank—also, to quite some extent, a patriotic–nationalistic
motivation. At timeswheneideticcartographic (3D)visualizationsdidnotyetexist,not tomention
aerialandsatellite imageryorvirtualdigitalpanoramas—things thatcanbetakenforgrantedtoday,
this Landscape Relief Model of Carinthia played a seminal role (Figure 4, cf. [4]). Also today, during a
period of ever increasing digitalization, this genuine landscape relief model, following the postulation
of theworld-famousgeosculptorToniMair,has tobeconsideredbothapieceofexcellenthandicraft and
Analogue Meets Digital
History and Present IT Augmentation of Europe’s Largest Landscape Relief Model in Villach, Austria
- Titel
- Analogue Meets Digital
- Untertitel
- History and Present IT Augmentation of Europe’s Largest Landscape Relief Model in Villach, Austria
- Autor
- Manfred F. Buchroithner
- Ort
- Dresden
- Datum
- 2019
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY 4.0
- Abmessungen
- 21.0 x 29.7 cm
- Seiten
- 12
- Kategorien
- Dokumente IT & Technologie
- International